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Parallelogon

Not to be confused with zonogon, a polygon with parallel opposite sides, that does not necessarily tile a plane but must be convex.
A parallelogon is constructed by two or three pairs of parallel line segments. The vertices and edges on the interior of the hexagon are suppressed.
There are five Bravais lattices in two dimensions, related to the parallelogon tessellations by their five symmetry variations.

In geometry, a parallelogon is a polygon with parallel opposite sides (hence the name) that can tile a plane by translation (rotation is not permitted).[1][2]

Parallelogons have an even number of sides and opposite sides that are equal in length. A less obvious corollary is that parallelogons can only have either four or six sides;[1] Parallelogons have 180-degree rotational symmetry around the center.

A four-sided parallelogon is called a parallelogram.

The faces of a parallelohedron (the three dimensional analogue) are called parallelogons.[2]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference aleksandrov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Grünbaum, Branko (2010-12-01). "The Bilinski Dodecahedron and Assorted Parallelohedra, Zonohedra, Monohedra, Isozonohedra, and Otherhedra". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 32 (4): 5–15. doi:10.1007/s00283-010-9138-7. hdl:1773/15593. ISSN 1866-7414. S2CID 120403108. PDF
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