Word Origin & History. epicene mid-15c., originally a grammatical term for nouns that may denote either gender, from L. epicoenus common, from Gk. Extended sense of characteristic of both sexes first recorded in English c.1600; that of effeminate 1630s.
A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. Equivalent conditions are that opposite sides are of equal length; that opposite angles are equal; or that the diagonals bisect each other. Parallelograms also include the square, rectangle, rhombus and rhomboid. Rectangle: all four angles are right angles. 2  An equivalent condition is that the diagonals bisect each other and are equal in length. 3  Informally: a box or oblong (including a square). 4  Square (regular quadrilateral): all four sides are of equal length (equilateral), and all four angles are right angles.
A rectangle is a parallelogram with four right angles, so all rectangles are also parallelograms and quadrilaterals. On the other hand, not all quadrilaterals and parallelograms are rectangles. A rectangle has all the properties of a parallelogram, plus the following: 1  The diagonals are congruent. parallelogram is a quadrilateral in which both pairs of opposite sides are parallel. A parallelogram also has the following properties: 1  Opposite angles are congruent; 2  Opposite sides are congruent; 3  Adjacent angles are supplementary;