parallelogram

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In the tiling of colored dots representing where the rat was when each grid cell fired, four neighboring red dots formed the corners of a slanted rectangle known as a parallelogram.

From Scientific American

One of Shigematsu’s preferred ways of describing the building — a three-story parallelogram draped in a honeycomb pattern that angles into an architecturally significant stretch of Wilshire — is as “a machine for gatherings.”

From Los Angeles Times

Those obtuse triangles she wove for that must-have pillow appear too in tender gouaches on paper, locking into gray and salmon parallelograms like the teeth of a zipper.

From New York Times

Indoors, cold moonlight fell in bright parallelograms on household floors, while outdoors, fence posts cast their stark shadows on the ground.

From Washington Post

Fold the upper left corner to the edge and tuck it under the right section, creating a parallelogram with two pockets.

From New York Times