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rhomb

noun
/ɹɒm/

Etymology

Partly borrowed from Middle French rhombe and partly from its etymon Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhombus and rhumb.

  1. derived from ῥόμβος
  2. borrowed from rhombus
  3. borrowed from rhombe

Definitions

  1. A rhombus.

    • The four-sided pyramid, perhaps the most frequent of all natural crystals, is called in architecture a dogtooth; its use is quite limitless, and always beautiful: the cube and rhomb are almost equally frequent in chequers and dentils;
    • A circumference on a blackboard, a rectangular triangle, a rhomb, are forms which we can fully intuit;

  2. A rhombohedron.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA