Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to a parallelogram.
- Having the shape of a parallelogram: as, a parallelogrammatic mark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.
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- adjective Having the shape of a
parallelogram .
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Examples
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Thus, in granite, which has a kind of parallelogrammatic cleavage, water introduces itself into the fissures, and the result, in a sharp frost, will be a disintegration of the rocks
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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The object which the Serjeant had in view was so good that it seemed to him to warrant some slight deviation from parallelogrammatic squareness — though he held it as one of his first rules of life that the end cannot justify the means.
Lady Anna 2004
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It is new and parallelogrammatic as an American town is very cold in cold weather, very hot in hot weather, and now that it has been robbed of its life as a capital is as dull and uninteresting as though it were German or English.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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When ready to sail he had discovered that one of the necessaries of life, in the parallelogrammatic shape of plug tobacco, had been forgotten.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Various 1887
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When ready to sail he had discovered that one of the necessaries of life, in the parallelogrammatic shape of plug tobacco, had been forgotten.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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The object which the Serjeant had in view was so good that it seemed to him to warrant some slight deviation from parallelogrammatic squareness -- though he held it as one of his first rules of life that the end cannot justify the means.
Lady Anna 1874
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_c'est-à-dire_, a parallelogrammatic pile of about three million mangold-wurzels, brought up there for the sheep, I suppose.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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