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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 whose vertices all lie in either of two parallel planes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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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