noun
definition
A rhombus.
definition
A rhombohedron.
Examples of rhombs in a Sentence
The stereom shows no trace of canals, folds, rhombs or diplopores.
That this is not a necessary characteristic of light was discovered by Christian Huygens, who found that, whereas a stream of sunlight in traversing a rhomb of spar in any but one direction always gives rise to two streams of equal brightness, each of these emergent streams is divided by a second rhomb into two portions having a relative intensity dependent upon the position with respect to one another of the principal planes of the faces of entry into the rhombs - the planes through the axes of the crystals perpendicular to the refracting surfaces.
The other vertex stars use different arrangements of the thick and thin rhombs.
Dark, zoned calcite of domain 4b is intimately associated with dolomite rhombs.