Parallelogram in a sentence

Drawing with three points of a parallelogram Rytz’s construction can be used to find the minor and major axes and their angle of an ellipse from conjugate diameters (which can be seen as three points of a parallelogram).

Hypervolume of an n-parallelotope spanned by n vectors For vectors and spanning a parallelogram we have : with the result that is linear in the product of the "altitude" and the "base" of the parallelogram, that is, its area.

In three dimensions, it is further possible to define a cross product which supplies an algebraic characterization of the area and orientation in space of the parallelogram defined by two vectors (used as sides of the parallelogram).

It follows that the area of the parallelogram is the same as the area of the rectangle: : (parallelogram).

The parallelogram bed is a nice design touch.

An equivalent condition is that opposite sides are parallel (a square is a parallelogram), that the diagonals perpendicularly bisect each other, and are of equal length.

Any line through the midpoint of a parallelogram bisects the area.

A parallelogram which is not a rhombus.

Conjugation distributes over the standard arithmetic operations: : : : : Addition and subtraction Addition of two complex numbers can be done geometrically by constructing a parallelogram.

For example, adjacent angles of a parallelogram are supplementary, and opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral (one whose vertices all fall on a single circle) are supplementary.

He used the areas of triangles, rather than that of the parallelogram.

One might attempt to compensate for the second player's disadvantage by making the second player's sides closer together, playing on a parallelogram rather than a rhombus.

One side of the parallelogram is the chord, and the opposite side is a tangent to the parabola.

Shearing A shearing transformation will push the top of a square sideways to form a parallelogram.

Some designs (Burne-Jones, and Garrard "Zero" series) use dual arms in a parallelogram arrangement, pivoting the cartridge head to maintain a constant angle as it moves across the record.

The area enclosed between a parabola and a chord (see diagram) is two-thirds of the area of a parallelogram which surrounds it.

The bridge was the first to cross any railway at an angle. citation It required the structure to be constructed as two flat planes (overlapping in this case by convert) between which the stonework forms a parallelogram shape when viewed from above.

The outer product of two vectors can be identified with the signed area enclosed by a parallelogram the sides of which are the vectors.

The ruins of Nineveh, with the whole area included within the parallelogram they form by lines drawn from the one to the other, are generally regarded as consisting of these four sites.

This is evident graphically in the parallelogram method of construction, and can be proven analytically, for example by using the parametric form in canonical position, as given below.