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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term used by N. Story Maskelyne for a crystal form whose faces are parallel to one of the crystallographic axes while meeting the other two axes.
- noun A solid having two parallel polygonal bases connected by triangular faces.
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- noun mathematics Any
polyhedron whosevertices all lie in either of twoparallel planes
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- noun a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek prīsma, prīsmat-, prism + –oid.]
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