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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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