Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An equilateral parallelogram.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as rhomb.
- n. [capitalized] An obsolete constellation, near the south pole.
- n. [NL.] In ichthyology: [capitalized] A genus of Stromateidæ, generally united with Stromateus.
- n. The Linnean specific name of the turbot (as Pleuronectcs rhombus), and later [capitalized] a generic name of the same (as Rhombus maximus), and of various other flatfishes now assigned to different genera.
Wiktionary
- n. A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as rhomb, 1.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
Etymologies
- Late Latin, from Latin, flatfish, magician's circle, from Greek rhombos, rhombus; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“My "specific" application I mentioned earlier is instructive for fans of anime and manga - as a member of the otaku-rhombus, that is, non-Japanese fans of anime creating works with roots in aforementioned anime, I view the art from my point of view, which is just as accurate as the native Japanese person's.”
“You just wanted a way to get the word "rhombus" into a post, right?”
“(To make the edges of the rhombuses match, the width of the rhombus should be a multiple of four pixels and the height should be one pixel less than ½ width.”
“Saw them at the local {shudder} Wal-Mart about a month ago. rhombus Says:”
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“What a terribly ugly car, it may be environmentally friendly but what ever happened to aesthetics?! rhombus Says:”
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“Shovel the deluged, spurting, shoveling, rhombus fields with all that you can pick from the laden streets of the land and make your house there in the land if you like.”
“With a very sharp knife, make a long slash in the middle of each rhombus.”
“I may be interested in a stud encrusted leather rhombus.”
“By Abigail, November 29, 2009 @ 10:01 pm kind of an elliptical circular rhombus, really.”
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“¬ † Maybe they should have used a rhombus instead.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rhombus’.
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What the H?
Words that I could probably spell correctly without having to look them up every single damn time were it not for an apparently extraneous and randomly placed h.
jodhpur, diarrhea, ankh, myrrh, hemorrhoids, baghdad, rhombus, rhythm, hemorrhage, sheikh, catarrh, maharajah and 21 more...
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miss's list
inexorable, ripe, languid, fervor, polyandry, zygote, rhombus, binary, eunoia
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