Circumscribe/Examples/Prism in Cylinder

Example of Circumscribing

A prism $\PP$ is circumscribed by a cylinder $\CC$ if and only if all the edges of $\PP$ lie on the surface of $\CC$.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): circumscribed
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): circumscribed