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parallelepiped

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˌpæɹəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɪd/
  • /ˌpæɹəlɛˈlɛpɪpɛd/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms, all opposite faces being similar and parallel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a prism whose bases are parallelograms

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: prism

Narrower terms: cuboid, rhombohedron

History

Etymology

From Latin parallēlepipedum, from Ancient Greek παραλληλεπίπεδος (parallēlepípedos, “with parallel surfaces”), from παράλληλος (parállēlos, “parallel”) + ἐπίπεδος (epípedos, “plane”).

Across languages

Translations

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: զուգահեռանիստ (zugaheṙanist) — solid figure
  • Bashkir: параллелепипед (parallelepiped) — solid figure
  • Belarusian: паралелепіпед (paraljeljepipjed) — solid figure
  • Catalan: paral·lelepípede — solid figure
  • Chinese Mandarin: 平行六面體 /平行六面体 (píngxíng liùmiàntǐ) — solid figure
  • Czech: rovnoběžnostěn — solid figure
  • Danish: parallelepipedum — solid figure
  • Dutch: parallellepipedum — solid figure
  • Esperanto: paralelepipedo — solid figure
  • Finnish: suuntaissärmiö — solid figure
  • French: parallélépipède — solid figure
  • German: Parallelflach — solid figure
  • German: Parallelepiped — solid figure
  • Greek: παραλληλεπίπεδο (parallilepípedo) — solid figure
  • Hebrew: מקבילון (makbilón) — solid figure
  • Hungarian: paralelepipedon — solid figure
  • Indonesian: balok genjang — solid figure
  • Irish: comhthreomharóid — solid figure
  • Italian: parallelepipedo — solid figure
  • Japanese: 平行六面体 (heikō-roku-mentai) — solid figure
  • Kazakh: параллелепипед (parallelepiped) — solid figure
  • Kyrgyz: параллелепипед (parallelepiped) — solid figure
  • Moore: yɩɩb-ta-mumdi — solid figure
  • Polish: równoległościan — solid figure
  • Portuguese: paralelepípedo — solid figure
  • Russian: параллелепи́пед (parallelepíped) — solid figure
  • Spanish: paralelepípedo — solid figure
  • Swedish: parallellepiped — solid figure
  • Ukrainian: паралелепіпед (paralelepiped) — solid figure