Contextualizebeta

parallelohedron

noun

Etymology

parallel + -o- + -hedron

  1. borrowed from parallēlus,parallēlos
  2. borrowed from parallèle
  3. formed as parallelohedron — “parallel + -o- + -hedron”

Definitions

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parallelohedron. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA