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geometry > geometric figure > polyhedron > prism > rectangular cuboid

Preferred term

rectangular cuboid  

Definition

  • In a rectangular cuboid, all angles are right angles, and opposite faces of a cuboid are equal. By definition this makes it a right rectangular prism, and the terms rectangular parallelepiped or orthogonal parallelepiped are also used to designate this polyhedron. The terms rectangular prism and oblong prism, however, are ambiguous, since they do not specify all angles.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboid#Rectangular_cuboid)

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Entry terms

  • orthogonal parallelepiped
  • rectangular parallelepiped

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