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. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
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!!. From Wordnik.com. [Way to go, brain] Reference
He showed how to obtain and detect circularly polarized light by means of his rhomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Often as this rhomb-line must have been noticed, no explanation of it has ever, to my knowledge, been given. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
Shaped like a rhomb, having four angles, of which the late - ral ones are lefs diftant from the bafe than the Others. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
It's a knitted rhomb out of the ribbing. From Wordnik.com. [SP7, a package came:)] Reference
A figure like a rhomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
Nocturnal and diurnal rhomb supposed. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Nocturnal and diurnal rhomb supposed. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
Shaped like a rhomb. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
A rhombed or rhomb-fliaped. leaf. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
Approach - ing in Ihape to a rhomb. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
A square is equal to the same rhomb. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
771: Nocturnal and Diurnal rhomb suppos'd. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference
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