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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Rhomb \Rhomb\ (r[o^]mb or r[o^]m; 277), n. [L. rhombus, Gr.
     "ro`mbos rhomb, a spinning top, magic wheel, fr. "re`mbein to
     turn or whirl round, perhaps akin to E. wrench: cf. F.
     rhombe. Cf. Rhombus, Rhumb.]
     1. (Geom.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral
        figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides
        parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and
        two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in
        which case it is usually called a square.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Geom.) A rhombohedron.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Fresnel's rhomb (Opt.), a rhomb or oblique parallelopiped
        of crown or St. Gobain glass so cut that a ray of light
        entering one of its faces at right angles shall emerge at
        right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within
        the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to
        produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized
        ray, or the reverse. --Nichol.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Rhomb \Rhomb\, n. [L. rhombus, Gr. ??? rhomb, a spinning top,
     magic wheel, fr. ??? to turn or whirl round, perhaps akin to
     E. wrench: cf. F. rhombe. Cf. Rhombus, Rhumb.]
     1. (Geom.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral
        figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides
        parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and
        two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in
        which case it is usually called a square.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  rhomb
       n : a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled
           equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  rhomb
     n.
     1 A rhombus#Noun.
     2 A rhombohedron#Noun.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  rhomb
     n.
     1 A rhombus#Noun.
     2 A rhombohedron#Noun.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  rhomb
     n.
     1 A rhombus#Noun.
     2 A rhombohedron#Noun.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  rhomb
     n.
     1 A rhombus#Noun.
     2 A rhombohedron#Noun.

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Rhomb /ɹˈɒm/
  المعين

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  rhomb /ɹˈɒm/ 
  kosočtverec

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  rhomb /ɹˈɒm/
  Raute , Rhombus  [math.]
     Synonyms: rhombus, diamond, lozenge
  
   see: rhombi, rhombuses, rhombs, diamonds, lozenges
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 菱形;斜方形;菱形晶体

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