A general prism has two congruent polygonal bases (faces), while the other faces are parallelogrammatic; a right prism is so-called when the general prism's remaining faces are rectangular.
An example of a right prism with two congruent rectangular bases is a cube if all other faces are equal to the bases; a cuboid prism is where the other faces are equal to each other but not necessarily to the bases.
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a triangular prism has to triangular bases while a rectangular prism has a rectangle as the bases.
2 bases, 4 sides, 6 faces
rectangle prism
pentagonal prism
a hexagonal prism