parallelepiped

NOUN
  1. a prism whose bases are parallelograms
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How To Use parallelepiped In A Sentence

  • These vertical volumes and the several prismatic cuts into the building's outer envelope suggest a reading of the dormitory less as a single parallelepiped and more as an array of conjoined towers.
  • The residential towers, which sit on vertical projections of the podium, are parallelepipeds, rotated 30° in relation to the podium, which is oriented toward the Manhattan street grid.
  • The crystal systems are all parallelepipeds whose shapes are completely defined by the lengths of the three sides and by the three angles characterizing the parallelepiped.
  • Embedded in a low, almost geological podium of slate shards, glass and grey aluminium, the canted parallelepipeds are constructed almost entirely of contiguous glass elements held in place by a skeletal steel frame.
  • To optimize the mentioned facilities a beverage bottle (or packaging in general) should be a rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), also called a rectangular hexahedron, or rectangular parallelepiped. Multichannel News: Business News
  • You're a fatheaded, heterogeneous, quadrangular parallelepipedon! Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In
  • A noncollecting institution devoted to art of the last 40 years, the Contemporary Arts Museum occupies a dramatic stainless-steel warehouse-type building, shaped like a parallelepiped.
  • These ashlars are ‘finely shaped parallelepipeds,’ some of which are nearly cubical.
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