rhomb

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rhomb

/ɹɒm/ UK
/ɹɒmb/ UK
/ɹɑm/ Atlantic Canada, US
/ɹɒm/ Boston, Canada, Maine
/ɹɔm/ Australia
/ɹɒm/ New Zealand
[ɹɔ̟m] New Zealand
/ɹʌmb/ obsolete

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Partly borrowed from Middle French rhombe and partly from its etymon Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhombus and rhumb.

noun rhombs

A rhombus. Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
A rhombohedron.

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@misc{rhomb_2026,
  title = {rhomb},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rhomb},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}