rhombus
rhombus [′räm·bəs]
Rhombus
an oblique-angled parallelogram having four equal sides
rhombus [′räm·bəs]
(mathematics)
A parallelogram with all sides equal. Also known as rhomb.
Rhombus
a plane quadrangle with equal sides (Figure 1). It may be regarded as the special case of the parallelogram where two adjacent sides are equal, the diagonals are perpendicular,
Figure 1
or a diagonal bisects the angles of the vertices that it joins. A rhombus with right angles is called a square.
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