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  Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (P)
PRISMATOID (as a geometric figure) occurs in the title Das Prismatoid, by Th.
Prismatoid is found in English in 1881 in Metrical geometry.
A prismatoid is a polyhedron whose bases are any two polygons in parallel planes, and whose lateral faces are determined by so joining the vertices of these bases that each line in order forms a triangle with the preceding line and one side of either base.
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