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
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
