PRISMATOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prismatoid mean? 

• PRISMATOID (noun)
  The noun PRISMATOID has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PRISMATOID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRISMATOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("prismatoid" is a kind of...):

polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prismatoid"):

prismoid (a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms)