parallelogram

To build the lantern, the team began with a thin polymer sheet cut into a diamond-shaped parallelogram.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025

For this step, in Schwartz’s 2021 paper, he incorrectly concluded that this shape was a parallelogram.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023

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

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

Then these vectors form three edges of a parallelepiped, a three-dimensional prism with six faces that are each parallelograms, as shown in Figure 2.59.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

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

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan