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Rhomb

//ɹɒm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rhombus.

    "Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat."

  2. 2
    a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram wordnet
  3. 3
    A rhombohedron.

Etymology

Partly borrowed from Middle French rhombe and partly from its etymon Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhombus and rhumb.

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