Parallelogram Area Calculator tool is used to calculate area, perimeter and length of the diagonal of a parallelogram.
Like squares and rectangles, parallelograms are quadrilaterals: they have four sides and four interior angles. In a parallelogram those angles are not right angles, but the opposite sides must still be parallel to each other. The word "parallelogram" comes from the Greek word "parallelogrammon" (bounded by parallel lines). Rectangles, rhombuses, and squares are all parallelograms.
The perimeter of a parallelogram is the sum of its four sides. Since a parallelogram has two equal short sides (width, a ) and two equal long sides (base, b ), Perimeter=2a + 2b
The area of a parallelogram is equal to its base (another name for length) times its height. Its height is not the same as its width: height is measured by a vertical line perpendicular (at right angles to) the base. Area=b * h
A simple (non self-intersecting) quadrilateral is a parallelogram if and only if any one of the following statements is true: