Definitions for rhombus

rhombus rhom·bus

Spelling: [rom-buh s]
IPA: /ˈrɒm bəs/

Rhombus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in rhombus (bhmorsu).

Definitions for rhombus

noun

  1. an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
  2. an equilateral parallelogram, including the square as a special case.
  3. a rhombohedron.

Origin of rhombus

1560-70; Latin Greek rhómbos anything that may be spun around, derivative of rhémbein to revolve

Examples for rhombus

Of two cones of one common base is made Archimede's rhombus, as here, whose geodsy shall be cut of two cones.

The rhombus maximus (Cuvier), said to be the best, and excepting the halibut, the largest of our flat fishes.

Or why the Noble Antoninus in some sence doth call the soul it self a rhombus?

The Turbot, rhombus maximus (Fig. 371), resembles in its general form a lozenge, whence its name of rhombus.

The rhombus cardina, a passable fish of the pleuronect genus.

What is it about the rhombus, pa, and when am I to read Juvenal?

And a Rhomboides is so opposed to an oblong, as a rhombus is to a quadrate.

The Apache name for the rhombus is tzi-ditindi, the "sounding wood."

We use "parallelogram" to cover "rhomboid," "rhombus," "oblong," and "square."

Three forms of the rhombus have come under my own observation, each and all apparently connected in symbolism with the lightning.

Word Value for rhombus
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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