(n.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.
(n.) A rhombohedron.
Example Sentences:
(1) They rose steeply from DIV 3 to 8 in rhomb- and diencephalon but not in mesencephalon.
(2) Other membranes of the same cell or of other cells display either FCC only, aligned and occasionally ordered in "rhombs," "lines" only, with a similar pattern, or randomly distributed FCC.
(3) The second type of crystal (not observed in serial sections) is found compatible with a rhomb-dodecahedron which indexes on a cubic cell with a equal to 9.6 nm.
(4) D. Perception of size: appreciation of shape in two dimentions: circle, triangle, square, cross, rhomb, appreciation of form in three dimensions: ball, column, cone, trignonal prism, cube.
(5) As models the square, the circle, the rhomb, and the equilateral triangle were used.
Rhumb
Definition:
(n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.