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Help with this phrase about shapes
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valpa
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Help with this phrase about shapes
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I want to say that something has the shape of a rectangular prism. Sts are describing a robot: Its head is cube-shaped and its arms are cylindrical. Its body is ... What is the adjective for rectangular prism? |
25 Mar 2015
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yanogator
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I think most people would call it a box or box-shaped. Bruce |
25 Mar 2015
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sweeves
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After checking Google images, it looks to be just rectangular. |
26 Mar 2015
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redcamarocruiser
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I like Bruce �s suggestion, �box-shaped � the best. As Sweeves mentions, robot builders also use the term rectangular according to the results in this link http://goo.gl/8Y7q11 Example: "Rectangular hexapods have arectangular body and two groups of three legs..." |
26 Mar 2015
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Mr. Howl
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There �s also the term cuboidal, which literally means shaped like a cuboid (rectangular prism), but which isn �t commonly used in general language. As the above posters said, box-shaped or rectangular are what people would normally say. |
26 Mar 2015
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melissab
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I would say rectangular box-shaped. I am a native English speaker and that is the first thing that comes to my mind. The second is shoe-box shaped. Hope I helped you out. |
26 Mar 2015
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