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Definition of Parallelograms

1. parallelogram [n] - See also: parallelogram

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parallelograms

Literary usage of Parallelograms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Excise Officer's Manual: Being a Practical Introduction to the Business by Joseph Bateman (1852)
"The side of a square is equal to the square root of its area, and its diagonal is equal to the square root of twice its area. All parallelograms upon the ..."

2. Mechanics Magazine (1825)
"Part 3) that triangles are the half of parallelograms, of equal bases and perpendicular altitudes, and by this Theorem we have shown that parallelograms ..."

3. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... and the sum of all the parallelograms in APN is to the sum of all those in APB in the same ratio of 2 to 1 ; but the sum of all the parallelograms in ..."

4. The Contents of the Fifth and Sixth Books of Euclid (with a Note on by Euclid (1908)
"If two similar parallelograms have a common angle and be similarly situated ... Let ABCD, AEFH be two similar parallelograms having the same angle A. Let ..."

5. The Greek Coins by John H. Kroll (1993)
"I5a) is stripped away from the bottom, is very close to another version of Solid Rectangles (motif LXA.5). Hatched parallelograms (no precise Lernaean ..."

6. Junior High School Mathematics by George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith, Joseph Clifton Brown (1918)
"parallelograms 87. Quadrilateral. A rectilinear figure formed by four straight lines is ... Kinds of parallelograms. A parallelogram may be a rectangle, ..."

7. A Practical Arithmetic by George Payn Quackenbos, George Roberts Perkins (1879)
"A square and a rectangle are parallelograms. The Base of a parallelogram is the side on ... What is the difference between the areas of two parallelograms, ..."

8. The Pottery of Lerna IV by Jeremy B. Rutter (1995)
"Just as rectangles have been argued to be simply broader or more elaborated versions of short vertical bars (motifs 11.2—4, 7—13), so parallelograms are ..."

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