An oblong is an object longer than it is wide, especially a non-square
rectangle
In Euclidean geometry, Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a Rectilinear polygon, rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that a ...
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Oblong may also refer to:
Places
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Oblong, Illinois, a village in the United States
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Oblong Township, Crawford County, Illinois, United States
* A strip of land on the New York-Connecticut border in the United States nicknamed the "Oblong", running north from the
Connecticut panhandle
Other uses
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Oblong (company), an American a cloud-based communication service provider
* Oblong Industries, a spin-off of the
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fi ...
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Angus Oblong, American author and actor born David Walker (born 1976)
* ''
The Oblongs'', a short-lived 2001 American animated television program co-created by Angus Oblong
* Bob Oblong, a character in ''
The Shapies'', an Australian animated children's television series
* Oblong, a
leaf shape
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