Word Finder - rhombus

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A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.

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In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.

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Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.

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Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.

The conception of the right angle is strengthened, by contrast, by the use of bricks in the form of a rhombus.

Rare rhombus shaped piranha 5.5 - 6 in size feeding well on both live and dead food and growing !

The Rhombus Collection-These are designed to fit over small, square, or rectangular eyeglass frames.

If we remove the bar BD, and apply two equal and opposite forces S at B and D, the equation is W.I(2lcosO) + 2S .1(1 sin 8)=o, A where 2 is the length of a side of the rhombus, and 8 its inclination to the vertical.

This papyrus contains the first documentary evidence of the use of algebra. rhombus A quadrilateral with four sides of equal length.

In 1750 Dr Gowan Knight found that the needles of merchant-ships were made of two pieces of steel bent in the middle and united in the shape of a rhombus, and proposed to substitute straight steel bars of small breadth, suspended edgewise and hardened throughout.

As a simple example, take the case of a light frame, whose bars form the slides of a rhombus ABCD with the diagonal BD, suspended from A and carrying a weight W at C; and let it be required to find the stress in BD.