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Keywords: Parallelepiped, Six, Rhombi, Parallelopiped, Rhombuses

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A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

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Six sided polyhedron with each side shaped as a rhombus.

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a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)

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a parallelepiped with congruent rhombic faces

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A six-sided prism.

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In geometry, a rhombohedron is a three-dimensional figure like a cube, except that its faces are not squares but rhombi. It is a special case of a parallelepiped where all edges are the same length.

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