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Definition of Oblongs
1. oblong [n] - See also: oblong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oblongs
Literary usage of Oblongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Education: A Guide to Manual Training by Samuel Gurley Love (1889)
"Two cubes and three oblongs. Three cubes and one oblong. Three cubes and two
oblongs. ... One half-cube and two oblongs. One half-cube and three oblongs. ..."
2. The Kindergarten Guide: An Illustrated Hand-book, Designed for the Self by Maria Kraus-Boelte, John Kraus (1881)
"... Three oblongs joined in the corners turning the short edges towards each other,
enclose the space of an equilateral triangle; this form repeated will ..."
3. A New System of Arithmetick Theorical and Practical: Wherein the Science of by Alexander Malcolm (1730)
"COROLLARIES: oblongs next greater and lefler than that Square. т. ... Take the
Series of oblongs, and of Squares from 4 5 tho Differences of the cor- ..."
4. The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S.: Written Between by Henry Cavendish (1879)
"... with white cylinder; and A ami C with oblongs compared with B f. The coatings
were taken off from the plates A and C and oblong coatings without slits ..."
5. Notes on the Development of a Child by Milicent Washburn Shinn (1893)
"It evidently required absorption of mind thus to cany two sets at once in her
attention, and she would be annoyed when sorting squares and oblongs to be ..."
6. Modern Junior Mathematics by Marie Gugle (1920)
"CHAPTER TWO SURFACES OF COMMON SOLIDS A. STUDY OF CUBES AND oblongs I. Squares and
Rectangles 1. Paper ruled into small squares is called squared paper. ..."
7. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"The basis of this system ia a prism whose bases are oblongs (Fig. 3). By cutting
the faces we have the double pyramid with unequal faces, b. ..."
8. Hamilton's Essentials of Arithmetic by Samuel Hamilton (1920)
"Draw on paper and cut out several oblongs of different sizes. 8. Draw an oblong
3 inches long and 2 inches wide. What is the distance around it ? 9. ..."
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