rhomb

[ rom, romb ]

/ rɒm, rɒmb /

rhombus.

Origin of rhomb

< Latin rhombus rhombus; compare French rhombe

rhombo-

a combining form representing rhombus in compound words: rhombencephalon.

Also especially before a vowel, rhomb-.

The opposite face of the rhomb, from which issue the polarized, ordinary, and extraordinary rays.

The Boy's Playbook of Science |John Henry Pepper
It consisted of five magnetic needles, ranged side by side on a horizontal line that formed the diameter of a rhomb.

Great Facts |Frederick C. Bakewell
Why did this pillow have to be placed so as to form a rhomb; and why did the girl's head have to rest exactly upon the diagonal?

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis |Sigmund Freud
B is silent when it follows m in the same syllable; as in lamb, &c. except in accumb, rhomb, and succumb.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures |Samuel Kirkham

Let this rhomb be cut along the plane b c; and the two severed surfaces, after having been polished, reunited by Canada balsam.

Six Lectures on Light |John Tyndall

rhomb

/ (rɒm) /

another name for rhombus

rhombo-

Rhombus:rhomboid.