parallelogram
noun
a quadrilateral having both pairs of opposite sides parallel to each other.
parallelograms
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pluralof parallelogram.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 ● Nov. 26, 2021
They handed us a trophy as silver confetti rained down, great clouds of delicate parallelograms.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
The drawing room which had transfixed Cecilia that morning with its parallelograms of light was now in gloom, lit by a single lamp near the fireplace.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
