Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
parallelepiped .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.
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- noun Alternative form of
parallelepiped .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a prism whose bases are parallelograms
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Examples
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Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate; of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt; of the Doric architecture, and the
Uncollected Prose 2006
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His first balloon was a small parallelopiped in very thin taffeta, containing less than seventy-eight cubic inches of air.
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Did not DAN O'CONNELL, in his famous vituperative contest with a Dublin washer-woman, triumph in the long-run by calling her an unprincipled parallelopiped?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 Various
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The desirable portions of the shells were first broken out into small pieces of the form of a parallelopiped; these were then drilled and afterwards ground and polished.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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You cannot write a text-book of geometry without reference to a hypotenuse and triangles and a rectangular parallelopiped.
The Story of Mankind 1921
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Pretty, dainty, inconsequential little Rosalie was preëminently fashioned for romance; it clung to her golden hair and looked from her eyes, She might be extremely hazy as to the difference between participles and supines, she might hesitate in her definition of a parallelopiped, but when the subject under discussion was one of sentiment, she spoke with conviction.
Just Patty 1911
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The parallelopipeds may then be cut apart along one common face and spread out in like manner, forming when rectangular a single right prism (parallelopiped).
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We seated ourselves some distance from a table on which was a huge, plain, oblong contrivance that reminded me of the diagram of a parallelopiped which had caused so much trouble in my solid geometry at college.
The Silent Bullet 1908
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Antoinette, who disapproves of the amorphous British lumps of sugar, has found some emporium where she can buy the regular parallelopiped of the Continent, and these she provides for my afterdinner coffee.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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My carpets have been altered to fit all sized odd-shaped apartments from parallelopiped to hexagons.
Urban Sketches Bret Harte 1869
laiane commented on the word parallelopiped
I found this word in Anne Fadiman's essay, "The P.M.'s Empire of Books" in Ex Libris. It was used by Gladstone to describe the shape of his ideal bookcase.
December 1, 2007