PARALLELOGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parallelogram mean? 

• PARALLELOGRAM (noun)
  The noun PARALLELOGRAM has 1 sense:

1. a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length

  Familiarity information: PARALLELOGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARALLELOGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("parallelogram" is a kind of...):

quadrangle; quadrilateral; tetragon (a four-sided polygon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parallelogram"):

diamond; rhomb; rhombus (a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram)

rhomboid (a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal)

rectangle (a parallelogram with four right angles)

Antonym:

trapezium (a quadrilateral with no parallel sides)

 Context examples 

The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The shape has four distinct sides making a parallelogram with two inner obtuse angles and two inner acute angles.

(Diamond, NCI Thesaurus)

If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)