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Parallelogram

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.

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Diamond 76% connected

A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

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Rectangle 76% connected

A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.

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Rhomb 76% connected

An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obt…

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Rhomboid 76% connected

An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.

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Rhombus 76% connected

Same as Rhomb, 1.

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Quadrangle 76% connected

A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.

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Quadrilateral 76% connected

Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.

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Tetragon 76% connected

A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.

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Trapezium 94% connected

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

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Trapezium 94% connected

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

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