noun. See parallelepiped.

noun. 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.

noun. Alternative form of parallelepiped.

noun. a prism whose bases are parallelograms

"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"

prism  

cuboid  rhombohedron  

parallelepiped  parallelepipedon  parallelopipedon