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rhomb

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ɹɒm/
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/ɹɒm/ · /ɹɒmb/ · /ɹʌmb/

Definition of rhomb

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A rhombus.
    “Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.”
    “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;”
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noun

  1. A rhombus.
    “Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.”
    “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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Etymology

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

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