Definition:Parallelepiped/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Parallelepiped
The word parallelepiped is divided into syllables and stressed as par-al-lel-ep-i-ped.
The pronunciation par-al-lel-e-pi-ped is technically incorrect.
The occasionally-seen spelling parallelopiped is also considered by some authorities to be incorrect.
Sources
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): parallelopiped
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): parallelepiped