Parallelotope

English

Etymology

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Noun

1. Template:Lb A generalization of parallelogram and parallelepiped into a figure of arbitrary dimensionality.
   • 1983 [North Holland/Elsevier], Robert S. Borden, A Course in Advanced Calculus, 1998, Dover, page 83,

     Suppose now that $P$ is a $k$-dimensional parallelotope, $1<k<n$, in $E^n$.

   • 1997, Daniel A. Klain, Template:W, Introduction to Geometric Probability, Template:W, Template:W, page 30,

     We develop next a theory of invariant valuations for the lattice of finite unions of orthogonal parallelotopes, having edgers parallel to a fixed frame.Template:...This follows from the basic fact that the intersection of two parallelotopes is a parallelotope.

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