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parallelopiped - a prism whose bases are parallelograms

parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon

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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parallelopiped MLP= 1748 al 1751; 1755; 2014; 2015; 3691; 3700; 6034 al 6036; 6039; 6040; 6062; 6066; 6132; 6147; 6151; 6254; 6257; 6378; 6566; 6591; 6596; 7050; 8473; 10950.

Malacologia Latinoamericana. Moluscos de agua dulce de Argentina

Dziurawiec & Deregowski's (1986) data show that similar problems aris when adults of low educational level attempt to build simple geometric models presented to them in drawings, and the much earlier study by Barrel, cited above, shows that drawings of a parallelopiped made by such adults accord with this explanation.

Perceptual impulsions and unfamiliar solids: evidence from a drawing task

If you build such a model--or if you have a vivid imagination and can work with the diagrams--you should be able to pick out eight cubes: the two original right-angled cubes, and an additional six cubes which have square and parallelogram faces (and which therefore appear as parallelopipeds).

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