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Definition of Parallelepipeds
1. parallelepiped [n] - See also: parallelepiped
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parallelepipeds
Literary usage of Parallelepipeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1873)
"The result of the three operations will be to cut the substance whose conductivity
is r into rectangular parallelepipeds whose dimensions are a, b and c, ..."
2. Plane and Solid Geometry by George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith (1913)
"Two rectangular parallelepipeds having congruent bases are to each other as ...
Given two rectangular parallelepipeds P and P', with congruent bases and ..."
3. Vestiges of Pre-metric Weights and Measures Persisting in Metric-system by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1881)
"The result of the three operations will be to cut the substance whose conductivity
is r into rectangular parallelepipeds whose dimensions are a, b and c, ..."
4. A Journey Into Siberia: Made by Order of the King of France by Chappe d'Auteroche (1770)
"... parallelepipeds m particular, may be applied what has been faid of the laft.
The principal difference is in the color, ..."
5. The Elements of Euclid: The Errors, by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long Ago by Robert Simson, Euclid (1762)
"Complete the parallelograms AC, AG, GC, DF, DH, HF; and the foli \ parallelepipeds
BGML, ... parallelepipeds are recipro- 6.34 ii. tally ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"parallelepipeds.—The rest of the book is devoted to the study of the parallelepiped.
... Solid parallelepipeds, which are upon equal bases, and of the same ..."
7. An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry by Benjamin Peirce (1855)
"Ratio of right parallelepipeds, 357. Theorem.' Two right parallelepipeds are to
each other as the products of their bases by their altitudes. Proof. ..."
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