prismatoid
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Within Vinony's link graph, prismatoid is referenced by 114 other articles, and connects out to antiprism, geometry and triangle.
It is catalogued under the topic Prismatoid polyhedra.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
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In geometry, a prismatoid is a convex polyhedron whose vertices all lie in two parallel planes. Its lateral faces can be trapezoids or triangles. If both planes have the same number of vertices, and the lateral faces are either parallelograms or trapezoids, it is called a prismoid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “prismatoid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.