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rhomboidal

rhomboidal adjective: rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape.

Adjective

rhomboidal (comparative more rhomboidal, superlative most rhomboidal)

  1. rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape
    • Bisect it by a line drawn diagonally from the angles, and after this bisecting bring together the outlines of the figure so that it may present a rhomboidal design, reducing it by one sixth of its length and one fourth of its breadth at the (obtuse) angles.1914, Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph.D., Ll.D., Ten Books on Architecture
    • The coupled model is global in domain and consists of GCMs of the atmosphere (spectral model with rhomboidal 30 truncation, corresponding to an approximate resolution of 3.75° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 14 vertical levels) and ocean (1.875° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 18 vertical...2001 April 13, Sydney Levitus et al., “Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's Climate System”, in Science, volume 292, number 5515, →DOI, pages 267–270

Forms of rhomboidal

comparativemore rhomboidal
superlativemost rhomboidal

Words formed from rhomboidal

Words that rhyme with rhomboidal

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Questions about rhomboidal

What does rhomboidal mean?
Rhomboidal means rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape.
What part of speech is rhomboidal?
Rhomboidal is an adjective.

Words near rhomboidal in the dictionary

  1. rhomboi
  2. rhomboid
  3. rhomboid fossa
  4. rhomboid protease
  5. rhomboid proteases
  6. rhomboidal
  7. rhomboidally
  8. rhomboidei
  9. rhomboides
  10. rhomboideum
  11. rhomboideus

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