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A parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths
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rhomboid
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Traditionally, in two-dimensional geometry , a rhomboid is a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal lengths and angles are non-right angled . A parallelogram with sides of equal length ( equilateral ) is a rhombus but not a rhomboid. A parallelogram ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French rhomboide or directly from Late Latin rhomboides , from Greek rhomboeides "rhomboidal; a rhomboid;" see rhombus + -oid . Related: Rhomboidal . As an adjective from 1690s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid n. 1 A parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle 2 Any of several muscles that control the shoulders 3 A solid shape which has rhombic faces
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid; "rhomboidal shapes" [syn: rhomboidal ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For a leader to develop the necessary competencies, he must start to think about rhomboids. ▪ Modern architects are moving away from the divinity of the right angle to rhomboids, to rounded spaces and parabolas. ▪ These latter ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhomboid \Rhom"boid\ (r[o^]m"boid), a. Same as Rhomboidal .
Usage examples of rhomboid.
I went right to it, and all my symbols were there -- circles, triangles, japps, mirks, rhomboids, bews, smims, fouders, hundreds more.
Drawing and redrawing the circles, triangles, rhomboids, pentagrams, rectangles, sine curves and twisted ovals of infinity, they smoothed them away once again, and began again.
Another trick was to leave flaccid that part of the serratus magnus which is attached to the inferior angle of the scapula whilst he roused energetic contraction in the rhomboids.
Nownow he might as well have been in one of those obsolete rhomboids himself.
The only notable break that occurred anywhere in that gleaming case-hardened rhomboid was the small square panel in one side where the combination lock showed narrow segments of its four milled and lettered chrome-steel wheelsand even those were matched and balanced into their aperture so infrangibly that a bacillus on hunger strike would have felt cramped between them.
The patterns incorporated not only chevrons but triangles, zigzags, rhomboids, and right-angled spirals, in both blue and red.
There were other points of light that were in fact potato-shaped stony worldlets of various sizes, some carrying loads of instruments, the axled wheels of the old spacestation, the squares and rhomboids of advertising signs (hardly used nowthey proved unpopular and counterproductive), high aircraft and spacecraft, and, higher still and parked in their plodding orbits, the old slowboats that had brought the original colonists.
The rhomboid was full of black inclusions and pulsed steadily in and out, like an enormous slab-sided lung.
The rhomboid was full of black inclusions and pulsed steadily in and out, like an enormous slab‑sided lung.
He can't stop walking, moves around the courtyard in a random sequence of unconscious geometries, his footsteps tracing out a series of ellipses, trapeziums, rhomboids, ovals, rings.