A cuboid is also known as a rectangular prism. It is a three-dimensional shape with six rectangular faces, where each pair of opposite faces are equal in size and shape. The cuboid is characterized by its right angles and parallel opposite faces.
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A cuboid is a solid figure bounded by six faces, forming a convex polyhedron. There are two competing incompatible definitions of a cuboid in the mathematical literature. In the more general definition of a cuboid, the only additional requirement is that these six faces each be a quadrilateral, and that the undirected graph formed by the vertices and edges of the polyhedron should be isomorphic to the graph of a cube. Alternatively, the word "cuboid" is sometimes used to refer to a shape of this type in which each of the faces is a rectangle, and in which each pair of adjacent faces meets in a right angle; this more restrictive type of cuboid is also known as a right cuboid, rectangular box, rectangular hexahedron, right rectangular prism or rectangular parallelopiped.
If you follow the link below you will see that another name is a 'cuboid' http://www.mathsteacher.com.au/year7/ch09_polygons/06_polyhedra/prism.htm#prism
Rectangular cuboid
diagram of cuboid
This is a net of a cuboid
a cuboid has 8 corners