Rhomb

Word RHOMB
Character 5
Hyphenation rhomb
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Rhomb"

What do we mean by rhomb?

A rhombohedral crystal. noun

In geometry, an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; a quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal, and the opposite sides parallel, but the angles unequal, two being obtuse and two acute. noun

In crystallography, a solid bounded by six equal and similar rhombic planes; a rhombohedron. noun

In zoology, a pair of semirhombs forming a rhombic figure, as certain plates of cystic crinoids. noun

A material circle. noun

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. noun

A rhombohedron. noun

A rhomb or oblique parallelopiped of crown or St. Gobain glass so cut that a ray of light entering one of its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse. noun

A rhombus noun

A parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram noun

A rhombus.

A rhombohedron.

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The word "rhomb" in example sentences

If the length of the sides of a parallelogram are all equal and the angles are not right angles, as in Figure 68, it is called a rhomb, rhombus or diamond. ❋ Joshua Rose (N/A)

Anonymous said ... some people say that your brain is a product if i bought it today i would take it back tomorrow so many defects and faults sometimes i wish i didnt need one at all -- i hate my brain -- frenzal rhomb say it best n straight to the point!! ❋ Zombietron (2009)

_ Calcium carbonate crystallizes in the form of rhomb-shaped crystals which belong to the hexagonal system. ❋ William McPherson (N/A)

On rotating this rhomb of spar, one of these marks is seen to revolve round the other, which remains stationary, the moving mark passing further from the centre in places. ❋ John Mastin (N/A)

Thus saving the Sun his labour, and the 'primum mobile,' 'that swift nocturnal and diurnal rhomb,' which carried all the lower spheres along with it, and brought about the change of day and night. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

He showed how to obtain and detect circularly polarized light by means of his rhomb. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The Chinese and Tartar mandarins who accompanied them hindered them exceedingly; they had orders not to let the Fathers go where they would, ... and would never allow them sufficient time for observation of meridians, the measurement of roads, the variation of the needle (magnetic needle), the rhomb, and the estimation of positions from these elements. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A studded door stood ajar, and through the gap, from a guiding beacon of infamy, fell a rhomb of yellow light, suddenly obscured by a squat female figure when the steps of the ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

When, for example, in the demonstration of the theorem of Pythagoras, children handle the various pieces of the metal insets, they should start from the point at which they become aware that a rectangle is equal to the rhomb, and ❋ Maria Montessori (1911)

Often as this rhomb-line must have been noticed, no explanation of it has ever, to my knowledge, been given. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Coconut shell and calabash rind, horn of ox and skull of enemy, bamboo-joint and capacious rhomb-shell, all alike, no doubt, supplied him with congenial implements for drink or storage. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

Let this rhomb be cut along the plane _b c_; and the two severed surfaces, after having been polished, reunited by Canada balsam. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

The requisite obliquity is secured by making the rhomb of such a length that the plane of which _b c_ is the section shall be perpendicular, or nearly so, to the two end surfaces of the rhomb _b x, c y_. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

Iceland spar is another example of the same kind: its molecules are built symmetrically round the line uniting the two blunt angles of the rhomb. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

Let _b x, c y_ (fig. 34) represent the section of an elongated rhomb of Iceland spar cloven from the crystal. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

An infiltration of lime took place; and the minute calcareous molecules, under the influence of the law of crystallization, built themselves up on the floor into a large smooth-sided rhomb, resembling a closed sarcophagus resting in the middle of some Egyptian cemetery. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

On the 15th, at six in the morning, we bore away for the south point of the larger island, at which time we discovered another high island, bearing N. 3/4 W., the south island, being on the same rhomb line, and the south point of the island ahead, W. by N. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Shaped like a rhomb, having four angles, of which the late - ral ones are lefs diftant from the bafe than the Others. ❋ Unknown (1793)

The next morning, at fix, we made fail for the fouthern point of the larger ifland; and, about this time, difcovered another high ifland, in the diredion of north three quarters weftj the ifland to the fouthward being on the fame rhomb line, and the fouth extreme of the iflr. nd a-hcad bear - ing weft by north. ❋ Unknown (1784)

Thus we see that given an unchangeable crystal with cleavage planes evident, it is possible easily to reproduce the same form over and over again by splitting, whereas by simply breaking, the form of the crystal would be lost; just as a rhomb of Iceland spar might be sawn or broken across the middle and its form lost, although this would really be more apparent than real, since it would be an alteration in the mass and not in the shape of each individual crystal. ❋ John Mastin (N/A)

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