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parallelepiped
rectangular parallelepiped

par·al·lel·e·pi·ped

 (păr′ə-lĕl′ə-pī′pĭd, -pĭp′ĭd)
n.
A solid with six faces, each a parallelogram and each being parallel to the opposite face.

[Greek parallēlepipedon : parallēlos, parallel; see parallel + epipedon, plane surface, from neuter sing. of epipedos, level (epi-, epi- + pedon, ground; see ped- in Indo-European roots).]
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parallelepiped

(ˌpærəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɛd) or

parallelopiped

;

parallelepipedon

(ˌpærəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɪdən) or

parallelopipedon

n, pl -pipeds or -pipeda (-paɪpɪdə)
(Mathematics) a geometric solid whose six faces are parallelograms
[C16: from Greek parallēlepipedon; from parallēlos parallel + epipedon plane surface, from epi- + pedon ground]
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par•al•lel•e•pi•ped

(ˌpær əˌlɛl əˈpaɪ pɪd, -ˈpɪp ɪd)

n.
a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
[1560–70; < Greek parallēlepípedon body with parallel surfaces]
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par·al·lel·e·pi·ped

(păr′ə-lĕl′ə-pī′pĭd)
A solid geometric figure having six faces, each one being a parallelogram.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.parallelepiped - a prism whose bases are parallelogramsparallelepiped - a prism whose bases are parallelograms
prism - a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
cuboid - a rectangular parallelepiped
rhombohedron - a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)
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Translations
paralelepípedo
parallélépipède

parallelepiped

[ˌpærəˌleləˈpaɪped] Nparalelepípedo m
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parallelepiped

[ˌpærəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɛd] nparallelepipedo
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That value is the real part of the complex Poynting vector flux on a parallelepiped surface completely surrounding the antenna inside the refined sub-lattice (five refined cells apart from its outer surface).
[??] and [??] x [??], it is not hard to understand why the volume of the parallelepiped determined by three vectors [??] , [??] and [??] in 3D can be written as [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (2)
Let [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] be an arbitrary piecewise [C.sup.1]-curve joining the diagonal points to and t1 of the parallelepiped [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.].
The parallelepiped or cube is not a simplex because for this purpose it is necessary that all 8 points were in six-measured space.
Such system is usually formed of a basic star-, rectangularly- or circularly-shaped electrode [1], [2] connected to an iron armature of the concrete pillar foundation (usually of the shape of parallelepiped [3]), which can be treated as a second part of the grounding system.
* The cornea should be examined using a parallelepiped beam (approximately 2mm width, 10-16x mag), in three sweeps covering the inferior, central and superior cornea.
SANS could also be used for the detection of long-term defect orientations in the material by placing a given load on a separate piece of material (a 1 x 10 x 20 [mm.sup.3] parallelepiped) for a few days (seven days maximum), and changing the temperature from room temp to 300[degrees]C.
Let's keep the layer of the body surface, in which heat flow is circulating, is solid in form of the parallelepiped rectangular.
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