Rhomb

//ɹɒm// noun

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Definitions

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.

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diamondlozengerhombusrhombus

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"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."

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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Fresnel's rhomb

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