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quadrilateral (Definition)

A quadrilateral is a four-sided polygon.

Very special kinds of quadrilaterals are parallelograms (squares, rhombuses, rectangles, etc.), although cyclic quadrilaterals are also interesting on their own. Notice however, that there are quadrilaterals that are neither parallelograms nor cyclic quadrilaterals.

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See Also: cyclic quadrilateral, rhombus, parallelogram law, rectangle, kite, square, parallelogram


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kite (Definition) by yark
Lambert quadrilateral (Definition) by Wkbj79
Saccheri quadrilateral (Definition) by Wkbj79
crossed quadrilateral (Definition) by pahio
trapezoid (Definition) by Wkbj79
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Cross-references: cyclic quadrilaterals, rectangles, rhombuses, squares, parallelograms, polygon
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This is version 4 of quadrilateral, born on 2001-12-11, modified 2006-11-03.
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