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thumb|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. thumb|There are five Bravais lattice#Bravais lattices in at most two dimensions|Bravais lattices in two dimensions, related to the parallelogon tessellations by their five symmetry variations.

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thumb|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. thumb|There are five Bravais lattice#Bravais lattices in at most two dimensions|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).

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