Meaning

5 senses
  1. A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.

    Rhombus, Raute

    ромбromb

    ромбromb

    a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram

  2. A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.

    The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).

  3. In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.

  4. (archaic)Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.

  5. (archaic)Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The rectangle and the rhombus are parallelograms.

    Прямокутник і ромб - це паралелограми.

    ruПрямоугольник и ромб - параллелограммы.

    deRechteck und Rhombus sind Parallelogramme.

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  2. A square is both a rectangle and a rhombus.

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  3. A square is a rectangle and a rhombus at the same time.

    ruКвадрат - это одновременно прямоугольник и ромб.

    deEin Quadrat ist gleichermaßen ein Rechteck und eine Raute.

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  4. A square is a rhombic rectangle or, if you prefer, a rectangular rhombus.

    deEin Quadrat ist ein rhombisches Rechteck oder, wenn einem das lieber ist, ein rechteckiges Rhombus.

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  5. A rhombus and a rectangle are special parallelograms. All three of these are special quadrilaterals.

    deEin Rhombus und ein Rechteck sind spezielle Parallelogramme. Alle drei sind spezielle Vierecke.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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A parallelogram having all sides of equal length:
Русский
By meaning 1
A parallelogram having all sides of equal length:
Deutsch
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A parallelogram having all sides of equal length:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinni

Learned borrowing from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”). Doublet of rhomb and rhumb.

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Forms

plural: rhombi / rhombuses
Singularrhombus
Pluralrhombi / rhombuses

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram:rhombdiamond

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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