Definition:Cuboid

Definition

A cuboid is a right parallelepiped whose faces are all rectangular.

Also known as

A cuboid can also be referred to as a rectangular prism or a rectangular parallelepiped.

Also see

• Results about cuboids can be found here.

Linguistic Note

The word cuboid can be used in its adjectival form to mean:

shaped in some respect like a cube, with rectangular rather than square faces.

Sources

• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): cuboid: 2.
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cuboid
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): parallelepiped
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cuboid
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): parallelepiped
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cuboid

• Weisstein, Eric W. "Cuboid." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cuboid.html