Parallelepiped

Remember, the volume of a parallelepiped is the area of its base surface times its height. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I wish he would have used the more correct and pretentious 'parallelepiped'. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

The house is a 23m x 7m parallelepiped, made of concrete, steel and glass, embedded in the slope of the terrain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This describes the diagonal of a rectangular parallelepiped, where length along the respective axes are: ❋ Sean (2008)

The class intimations of these images are plain enough, though Polidori in his exhaustive effort of preservation did not scruple to include upper-end or highland stretches — Canal Street, say, with its two-storied, sometimes stuccoed domiciles set back on lawns, including a pert example of old-fashioned flat-roofed, parallelepiped-pure modernism, with Art Deco stripes and a little penthouse. ❋ Updike, John (2006)

Full rectangular parallelepiped format with no indentation on any face. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Compressed earth blocks generally have a rectangular parallelepiped format and are full or perforated, with vertical and/or horizontal indentations. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Rectangular parallelepiped format with holes or perforations between the largest faces. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Full rectangular parallelepiped format with one or more indentations (e.g. hollows, rounded or chamfered corners, etc.) on the stretcher or header faces or simultaneously on several faces. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Rectangular parallelepiped format with holes or perforations and with indentations on the stretcher and header faces sometimes in combination with indentations on its larger faces. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Compressed earth blocks generally have a rectangular parallelepiped format and are full or perforated with vertical and/or horizontal indentations. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Rectangular parallelepiped format with holes or perforations in combination with indentations on its larger faces (laying face and bed face). ❋ Unknown (1998)

The most common format is a rectangular parallelepiped (or prismatic) format with a length (l), a width (w) and a height (h). ❋ Unknown (1998)

Full rectangular parallelepiped format with an indentation on one or both of its larger faces (laying and bed face). ❋ Unknown (1998)

Non parallelepiped rectangular formats require a fuller description (cylindrical, conical, hexagonal, wedge-shaped, in the form of a truncated cone, etc.). ❋ Unknown (1998)