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parallelohedron

parallelohedron noun: a polyhedron that can tessellate three-dimensional spaces with face-to-face contacts via translations.

Noun

parallelohedron (plural parallelohedrons or parallelohedra)

  1. A polyhedron that can tessellate three-dimensional spaces with face-to-face contacts via translations.

Forms of parallelohedron

pluralparallelohedrons
pluralparallelohedra

Origin of parallelohedron

parallel + -o- + -hedron

Words formed from parallelohedron

Questions about parallelohedron

What does parallelohedron mean?
Parallelohedron means a polyhedron that can tessellate three-dimensional spaces with face-to-face contacts via translations.
What part of speech is parallelohedron?
Parallelohedron is a noun.
What is the plural of parallelohedron?
The plural of parallelohedron is parallelohedrons.

Words near parallelohedron in the dictionary

  1. parallelogrammical
  2. parallelograms
  3. parallelograms of forces
  4. parallelohedra
  5. parallelohedral
  6. parallelohedron
  7. parallelohedrons
  8. parallelomania
  9. parallelometer
  10. parallelometers
  11. parallelophobia

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