Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A parallelogram with unequal adjacent sides.
- adjective Shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a form like or approaching that of a rhomb; having the shape of a rhomboid (see II., 1); rhomboidal.
- noun In geometry, a quadrilateral figure whose opposite sides and angles are equal, but which is neither equilateral nor equiangular; a non-equilateral oblique parallelogram.
- noun In crystallography, a solid having a rhomboidal form with three axes of unequal lengths, two of which are at right angles to each other, while the third is so inclined as to be perpendicular to one of the two axes, and oblique to the other.
- noun In anatomy, a rhomboideus.
- noun In anthropology, a cranium the norma verticalis of which has a rhomboid form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.
- adjective Same as
rhomboidal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
parallelogram which is neither arhombus nor arectangle - noun Any of several
muscles that control theshoulders - noun A solid shape which has
rhombic faces - adjective resembling, or shaped like a
rhombus or rhomboid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade
- noun a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal
- adjective shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid
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Examples
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His team studies enzymes called rhomboid proteases that are found in a cell's membrane.
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Of course it is not in any way shaped like a square it is more like a crushed and bent rhomboid, but it is from this open mandala that the souks radiate.
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The quilt is worked using two sizes of lozenge diamond, and a rhomboid shape of black-and-white spotted fabric for the light-coloured 'trellis' effect dividing the diamonds.
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Of course it is not in any way shaped like a square it is more like a crushed and bent rhomboid, but it is from this open mandala that the souks radiate.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Of course it is not in any way shaped like a square it is more like a crushed and bent rhomboid, but it is from this open mandala that the souks radiate.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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I take the rhomboid of bricks and squint at it, and the diagram.
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The quilt is worked using two sizes of lozenge diamond, and a rhomboid shape of black-and-white spotted fabric for the light-coloured 'trellis' effect dividing the diamonds.
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It changed shape, from spherical to cuboid, then to pyramidal and to rhomboid.
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Of course it is not in any way shaped like a square it is more like a crushed and bent rhomboid, but it is from this open mandala that the souks radiate.
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