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  • noun Plural form of parallelogram.

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Examples

  • This game is a classic geometry puzzle (540 in all) that is made up of 7 shapes ranging from triangles of different sizes, squares, and parallelograms.

    Five Best Apps for the iPhone or iPod Touch | myFiveBest 2009

  • Hands become parallelograms with lines for fingers.

    Some New Kind of Slaughter » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • "Further, those parallelograms I saw today aren't even vaguely arthropods, which would fit in with the vertebrates we've discovered like the herbivores, predators and even the fliers."

    Cattle Town 2010

  • At step 4, two parallelograms are “sheared” out of the area, and then, in step 5, those parallelograms are transformed into squares, and, behold! the theorem is proved.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • Giselle's face, her neck and chin and cheeks, were crisscrossed with paper cuts, straight intersecting lines that sliced through skin and formed a field of squares, rectangles, parallelograms.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • But if, Varian thought, there had been the survey, maybe such things as pentadactyl development and aquatic collapsing parallelograms were entirely possible!

    Cattle Town 2010

  • At step 4, two parallelograms are “sheared” out of the area, and then, in step 5, those parallelograms are transformed into squares, and, behold! the theorem is proved.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • At the Batmanglijs 'kitchen table in Georgetown, there are delectable smells: fresh-cut jasmine in a vase, cups of black tea steeped in orange blossom water and a tray of baklava cut into exquisite parallelograms.

    Vampire Weekend's guitarist has his mind in Brooklyn, his roots in Georgetown 2010

  • Tiny parallelograms, each with a facility to shrivel or stretch, to concertina and overlap their neighbour.

    Death Masking Love 2010

  • At step 4, two parallelograms are “sheared” out of the area, and then, in step 5, those parallelograms are transformed into squares, and, behold! the theorem is proved.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

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