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English Dictionary: Parallelogram by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parallelogram
n
  1. a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length
    Antonym(s): trapezium
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Parallelogram \Par`al*lel"o*gram\, n. [Gr. [?]; [?] parallel +
      [?] to write: cf. F. parall[82]logramme. See {Parallel}, and
      {-gram}.] (Geom.)
      A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are
      parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in
      popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which
      is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
  
      {Parallelogram of velocities}, {forces}, {accelerations},
      {momenta}, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of
            which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces,
            accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and
            direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations,
            momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction
            by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram.
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