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rhomb

/ɹɒm/

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obsolete/ɹʌmb/

rhomb noun: a rhombus.

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Noun

rhomb (plural rhombs)

  1. A rhombus.
    • Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London...
    • The four-sided pyramid, perhaps the most frequent of all natural crystals, is called in architecture a dogtooth; its use is quite limitless, and always beautiful: the cube and rhomb are almost equally frequent in chequers and dentils;1851, John Ruskin, “The Material of Ornament”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXIII, page 219
  2. A rhombohedron.

rhomb meaning in Bengali

rhomb in Bengali

রম্বস, রম্বোহেড্রন

Forms of rhomb

pluralrhombs

Origin of rhomb

Partly borrowed from Middle French rhombe and partly from its etymon Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhombus and rhumb.

Words formed from rhomb

Phrases with rhomb

Questions about rhomb

What does rhomb mean?
Rhomb means a rhombus.
What is rhomb in Bengali?
Rhomb in Bengali is রম্বস, রম্বোহেড্রন. See Rhomb meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rhomb?
Rhomb is a noun.
How do you pronounce rhomb?
Rhomb is pronounced /ɹɒm/.
What is the plural of rhomb?
The plural of rhomb is rhombs.

Words near rhomb in the dictionary

  1. rhomalaeosaurid
  2. rhomalaeosaurids
  3. rhomaleosaurid
  4. rhomaleosaurids
  5. Rhomania
  6. rhomb
  7. rhombencephala
  8. rhombencephalic
  9. rhombencephalitis
  10. rhombencephalon
  11. rhombencephalons

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