rhomb

American

[rom, romb] / rɒm, rɒmb /

noun

rhombus.

rhomb British

/ rɒm /

noun

another name for rhombus

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Etymology

Origin of rhomb

< Latin rhombus rhombus; compare French rhombe

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Rhomboid, rom′boid, n. a figure of the form of a rhomb: a quadrilateral figure having only its opposite sides and angles equal.—adj.

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The small pillow for her head must lie on the large pillow to form a rhomb; she then places her head exactly upon the diagonal of the rhomb.

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Only a rhomb of dim gaslight on my ceiling remained....

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Circularly polarized light he obtained by means of a rhomb of glass, known as “Fresnel’s rhomb,” having obtuse angles of 126�, and acute angles of 54�.

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History of the Inductive Sciences," observes that, "by the accidental placing of a rhomb of calcareous spar, upon a book or line, Bartholinus discovered the property of the double refraction of light.

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