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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A prism with six faces, each a rhombus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In geometry and crystallography, a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geom. & Crystallog.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A prism with six faces, each a rhombus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)

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