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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

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 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




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