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cuboid vs parallelopiped

parallelopiped vs cuboid

cuboid and parallelopiped both are nouns.

cuboid is an adjective but parallelopiped is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cuboid Yes Yes No No
parallelopiped Yes No No No
As nouns, parallelopiped is a hypernym of cuboid; that is, parallelopiped is a word with a broader meaning than cuboid:
  • cuboid: a rectangular parallelepiped
  • parallelopiped: a prism whose bases are parallelograms
Other hypernyms of cuboid include parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon.
cuboid (noun) parallelopiped (noun)
a rectangular parallelepiped a prism whose bases are parallelograms
cuboid (adjective) parallelopiped (adjective)
shaped like a cube
Difference between cuboid and parallelopiped

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