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parallelogram

About 0.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A convex quadrilateral in which each pair of opposite edges are parallel and of equal length.
  2. noun either of two rectangular areas (respectively the large parallelogram and the small parallelogram) abutting the goal line in front of the goal. (Since 1986 officially named the large rectangle and small rectangle, though the older names are still occasionally used.)

Similar words

equiangular parallelepiped rhombus antiparallelogram parallelopiped quadrangle pentalateral regular polygon prism trapezoid

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Word family

parallelograms

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