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Grade 2 Unit 8:
Geometry and Arrays

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Lesson 8-4 Vocabulary

Parallel lines

Two lines in a plane are parallel if they never intersect or cross. Two parallel lines are always the same distance apart. Two line segments in a plane are parallel if they can be extended to form parallel lines. If two sides of a polygon are parallel line segments, that polygon has a pair of parallel sides.