rhombus
an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
an equilateral parallelogram, including the square as a special case.
a rhombohedron.
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Origin of rhombus
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How to use rhombus in a sentence
It turned out that the best arrangement was to have the four cups form a close-packed rhombus, centered on the central point of the probability distribution.
Raz is still a kid, and for him, the events of the first game and an additional VR title, “Psychonauts in the rhombus of Ruin,” happened just a few days ago.
‘Psychonauts 2’ is a Saturday morning cartoon with a side of mental health | Shannon Liao | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostNext, I randomly picked one of the four edges of the resulting rhombus and attached the third triangle.
Next, I randomly pick one of the four edges of the resulting rhombus and attach the third triangle.
Three forms of the rhombus have come under my own observation, each and all apparently connected in symbolism with the lightning.
The Apache name for the rhombus is tzi-ditindi, the "sounding wood."
Like the rhombus, they are decorated with incised lines representing the lightning.
They are in fact the duplicates, on a small scale, of the rhombus, already described.
The triangles of the rhombus are different, for they are divided by opposite diagonal lines.
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British Dictionary definitions for rhombus
/ (ˈrɒmbəs) /
an oblique-angled parallelogram having four equal sides: Also called: rhomb Compare square (def. 1)
Origin of rhombus
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for rhombus
[ rŏm′bəs ]
A parallelogram with four equal sides; an equilateral parallelogram.
Other words from rhombus
- rhomboid, rhomboidal adjective
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