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rhombus

rhombus

2 5.8
A four-sided shape with all sides equal and opposite sides parallel
  • 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.

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Examples

  • A green triangle, a blue rhombus, a red trapezoid, and a yellow hexagon represent each respective value as shown below.

    Academic text (1996)
  • So therefore, ladies and gentlemen, this is a rhombus, OK?

  • Imagine a diamond shape rhombus and on the top of it you put a little roof.

  • No, he said it was two isosceles triangles forming a rhombus.

  • Here we have the straightforward rhombuses, no adornments, just rhombuses.

  • But another property of of squares and of rhombuses is that the diagonals are perpendicular.

  • A rhombus is a shape with all sides equal in length, like a diamond.

  • In geometry class, we learned that a rhombus has opposite sides that are parallel.

  • The artist painted a beautiful rhombus in the center of her canvas.

Synonyms

diamond
vsrhombus
  • Specialized
9 4.2

A flat shape with four equal sides and slanted angles

is the same shape but uses the technical term rather than the common name
rhomb
vsrhombus
  • Specialized
9.1

A flat shape with four equal sides and slanted angles that are not right, like a diamond

is defined by equal sides and oblique angles without emphasis on excluding squares

Compounds

Scophthalmus rhombus
  • Specialized
9.9

A large flat sea fish eaten as food

Surface Forms

rhombus singular
rhombuses plural

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.