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How to pronounce rhombus in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms diamond, rhomb
Type of parallelogram
Derivation rhombic

Examples of rhombus

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Each rhombus represents the expression level of one mouse from the indicated group.
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By tipping backwards and forwards, a rhombus creates openings and acts like a valve.
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The lozenge is a rhombus generally resembling the diamonds of playing-cards.
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The red rhombus rockets up and across the boulevard in big blazing pulses.
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Trailers for the show also used the 1970s style, including the rhombus-style BBC logo.
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The new flag featured the imperial coat of arms within a yellow rhombus, on a green field.
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Parallelograms also include the square, rectangle, rhombus and rhomboid.
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If it also has two lines of reflectional symmetry then it must be a rhombus or an oblong.
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It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.
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More examples
  • A parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
  • In geometry, a rhombus or rhomb is a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length. The rhombus is often called a diamond, after the diamonds suit in playing cards, or a lozenge, though the latter sometimes refers specifically to a rhombus with a 45° angle.
  • Rhombus are a Dub/Drum n Bass/Reggae/Roots band from Wellington, New Zealand. They were formed in 2001 by Thomas Voyce, Simon Rycroft, Koa Williams and Ahmen Mahal aka Imon Star (who departed from the group in 2007 to pursue his solo project 'Olmecha Supreme'). ...
  • Mathematics Dictionary in 1949 and in the 1968 third edition has: "Some authors require that a rhombus not be a square, but the preference seems to be to call the square a special case of the rhombus." [Can any readers of this page cite any modern writer who makes this requirement?]
  • A polygon consisting of four equal sides, e.g., in zonohedra.
  • A flat shape which has four sides that are all of equal length.
  • A four sided shape in which all of the sides are equal lengths. The polygon could be either a square or a parallelogram.
  • A six-sided prism with three rhombuses at each end (rhomb - A plane figure having four equal sides and the opposite angles equal, two being acute and two obtuse).
  • Any quadrilateral with two axes of symmetry, each through a pair of opposite angles (vertices). Properties: 1) All sides are congruent.