Rhombus Definition

rŏmbəs
rhombi, rhombuses
noun
rhombuses
An equilateral parallelogram, esp. one without right angles.
Webster's New World

(zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes once considered part of the genus Rhombus. [from 16th c.]

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Noun

Singular:
rhombus
Plural:
rhombi, rhombuses

Origin of Rhombus

  • Late Latin from Latin flatfish, magician's circle from Greek rhombos rhombus wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhombos, “rhombus, spinning top"), from ῥέμβω (rhembo, “I turn around").

    From Wiktionary

Rhombus Sentence Examples

  • The conception of the right angle is strengthened, by contrast, by the use of bricks in the form of a rhombus.

  • Rare rhombus shaped piranha 5.5 - 6 in size feeding well on both live and dead food and growing !

  • The Rhombus Collection-These are designed to fit over small, square, or rectangular eyeglass frames.

  • If we remove the bar BD, and apply two equal and opposite forces S at B and D, the equation is W.I(2lcosO) + 2S .1(1 sin 8)=o, A where 2 is the length of a side of the rhombus, and 8 its inclination to the vertical.

  • This papyrus contains the first documentary evidence of the use of algebra. rhombus A quadrilateral with four sides of equal length.

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RRHRHO

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SUSBUS

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