Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
parallelepipedal .
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Examples
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They are composed of enormous masses of granite of a parallelopipedal figure, but rounded at the edges, and heaped one upon another.
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They would seem to have been piled up by some external force, if the proximity of a rock identical in its composition, not separated into blocks but filled with veins, did not prove that the parallelopipedal form is owing solely to the action of the atmosphere.
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It is traversed by banks of schistose jasper, * (Kieselschiefer of Werner.) * black, with a conchoidal fracture, and breaking into fragments of a parallelopipedal figure.
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They would seem to have been piled up by some external force, if the proximity of a rock identical in its composition, not separated into blocks but filled with veins, did not prove that the parallelopipedal form is owing solely to the action of the atmosphere.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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a parallelopipedal figure, but rounded at the edges, and heaped one upon another.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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