rectangular cuboid

Also known as right rectangular prism, rectangular parallelepiped, orthogonal parallelepiped, 3-hyperrectangle, 3-orthotope, box

right-angled hexahedron, like a cube but with edges not necessarily equal in length

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A rectangular cuboid is a three-dimensional shape with six rectangular faces and right angles at all corners, similar to a cube but with edges that can have different lengths. It's a common shape in everyday objects like boxes, rooms, and buildings, making it useful for calculating volumes and understanding spatial properties in practical applications.

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A rectangular cuboid is a special case of a cuboid with rectangular faces in which all of its dihedral angles are right angles. This shape is also called rectangular parallelepiped or orthogonal parallelepiped.

Many writers just call these "cuboids", without qualifying them as being rectangular, but others use cuboid to refer to a more general class of polyhedra with six quadrilateral faces.