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rhomb

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What does rhomb mean?

Noun
rhomb - a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
		rhombus, diamond
		parallelogram a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length

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rhomb (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.
rhomb (n.)
A rhombohedron.

rhomb
A parallelogram in which all of the sides are of equal length.
rhomb
A quadrilateral with sides of equal length, having two acute and two obtuse angles.

rhomb
A vertical circle of any given place, or the intersection of a part of such a circle with the horizon. Rhumbs, therefore, coincide with points of the world, or of the horizon; and hence seamen distinguish the rhumbs by the same names as the points and winds, as marked on the fly or card of the compass. The rhumb-line, therefore, is a line prolonged from any point of the compass in a nautical chart, except the four cardinal points; or it is a line which a ship, keeping in the same collateral point or rhumb, describes throughout its whole course.