Meaning & use
rhombus
A four-sided shape with all sides equal in length but no right angles, like a tilted square.
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The kite was cut into the shape of a rhombus with brightly colored fabric.
Students learned that a rhombus is a type of parallelogram with equal sides.
A note on using this word
A rhombus differs from a square only in that its angles are not necessarily ninety degrees.
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