| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| parallelepiped |
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| SYLLABICATION: | par·al·lel·e·pi·ped |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p r  -l l-p  p d, -ppd |
| NOUN: | A solid with six faces, each a parallelogram and each being parallel to the opposite face. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek parall lepipedon : paralllos, parallel; see parallel + epipedon, plane surface, from neuter sing. of epipedos, level ( epi-, epi- + pedon, ground; see ped- in Appendix I).
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