rhombus
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- noun
- /ˈrɑːmbəs/
- Specialized
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- So the Penrose tiling is either made of kites and darts or a kind of wide rhombus and a thinner rhombus.
- rhombus shape
One that was for the area of a kite or rhombus.
- One that was for the area of a kite or rhombus.
- My memory serves like a garbage heap, A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right angle, a rhombus.
Examples
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A green triangle, a blue rhombus, a red trapezoid, and a yellow hexagon represent each respective value as shown below.
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So therefore, ladies and gentlemen, this is a rhombus, OK?
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Imagine a diamond shape rhombus and on the top of it you put a little roof.
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No, he said it was two isosceles triangles forming a rhombus.
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Here we have the straightforward rhombuses, no adornments, just rhombuses.
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But another property of of squares and of rhombuses is that the diagonals are perpendicular.
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A rhombus is a shape with all sides equal in length, like a diamond.
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In geometry class, we learned that a rhombus has opposite sides that are parallel.
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The artist painted a beautiful rhombus in the center of her canvas.
Synonyms
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4.2
A flat shape with four equal sides and slanted angles
A flat shape with four equal sides and slanted angles that are not right, like a diamond
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rhombus comes from the old Greek word rhombos, which meant 'a spinning top' or 'something that turns', because the slanted, diamond-like shape reminded people of a top seen from the side. So a rhombus is a four-sided shape with all sides the same length and slanted corners.