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parallelogram

[par-uh-lel-uh-gram] / ˌpær əˈlɛl əˌgræm /
NOUN
quadrangle
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NOUN
rectangle
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To build the lantern, the team began with a thin polymer sheet cut into a diamond-shaped parallelogram.

From Science Daily Oct. 11, 2025

They could arrange four hat tiles into a hexagonlike structure, two tiles into a pentagon and another combination of two tiles into a parallelogram.

From Scientific American Apr. 10, 2023

Now, we have to get it square since at this point it’s probably a parallelogram, not a right rectangle!

From Seattle Times Dec. 12, 2022

In this way, the four red corners of the parallelogram become a single point on the doughnut.

From Scientific American Sep. 26, 2022

A child’s rubber slippers lay pigeon-toed in the bright parallelogram of barred sunlight on the floor.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The famous Miura fold, developed by Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura, folds a sheet of material into parallelograms, allowing it to fold down very compactly.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

You can also hear the shape of parallelograms and acute trapezoids, according to a 2015 paper by Rowlett and Zhiqin Lu, a mathematician at the University of California, Irvine.

From Scientific American Jun. 28, 2022

They handed us a trophy as silver confetti rained down, great clouds of delicate parallelograms.

From The New Yorker Apr. 1, 2019

See Figure 9 for a visual that compares vector addition and vector subtraction using parallelograms.

From Textbooks Feb. 13, 2015

Their southeast aspect had permitted parallelograms of morning sunlight to advance across the powder-blue carpet.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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