quadrilateral
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The on-chip quadrilateral MZI network is potentially useful for applications involving optical neural networks, which are created from networks of interconnected nodes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023
Oh, and I do have one final question: Doesn’t the Christian quadrilateral protect us from the false dichotomies you imply?
From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Days before the quadrilateral exercise, the coast guards of the Philippines, United States and Japan held their first trilateral exercise off the coast of a western Philippine province.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
With a few exceptions, “The Octopus Museum” consists of prose poems — not Shaughnessy’s usual mode, and not the quadrilateral blocks we usually picture when we hear the words “prose poem.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2019
“But,” 1 said, “in the old days the Austrians were always whipped in the quadrilateral around Verona. They let them come down onto the plain and whipped them there.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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There are yet more triangles and quadrilaterals of affection, not always clearly mapped in Bradshaw’s vigorous trimming of the text.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Note this is a characteristic of rectangles, but not other quadrilaterals.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
I showed that for certain shapes—for kites, which are quadrilaterals with bilateral symmetry—you can escape.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 17, 2018
Even when considering the Suprematist works, the Americans have typically isolated the most austere examples — the black-and-white squares, as opposed to the more colorful arrangements of floating, irregular quadrilaterals at Gagosian.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2011
And let all quadrilaterals other than these be called trapezia.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
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