Definition of Rhombic

1. Adjective. Resembling a rhombus.

Partainyms: Rhombus
Derivative terms: Rhombus

Definition of Rhombic

1. a. Shaped like a rhomb.

Definition of Rhombic

1. Adjective. Having the characteristics of a rhombus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rhombic

1. having the shape of a rhombus [adj]

Medical Definition of Rhombic

1. 1. Shaped like a rhomb. 2. Same as Orthorhombic. (23 Aug 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhombic

rhodotorula
rhodous
rhodoxanthin
rhodplumsite
rhodplumsites
rhody
rhomb
rhomb spar
rhombencephala
rhombencephalic gustatory nucleus
rhombencephalic isthmus
rhombencephalic tegmentum
rhombencephalon
rhombencephalons
rhombi
rhombic (current term)
rhombic grooves
rhombic lip
rhombical
rhombick
rhombicosidodecahedron
rhombicosidodecahedrons
rhombicuboctahedra
rhombicuboctahedron
rhombicuboctahedrons
rhombihexahedron
rhombihexahedrons
rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron
rhombo-
rhomboatloideus

Literary usage of Rhombic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1904)
"At this temperature, not only is rhombic sulphur in a metastable ... From the relative positions of the metastable melting point of rhombic sulphur and the ..."

2. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1908)
"At this temperature, not only is rhombic sulphur in a metastable ... From the relative positions of the metastable melting point of rhombic sulphur and the ..."

3. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"To exhibit the relation of this prism to the oblique rhombic prism, ... and the rhombic plane P a lateral plane, è is then an obtuse edge, and the prism ..."

4. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1920)
"At B we can add some rhombic, and the three phases will be found to be in equilibrium as already mentioned. We have so fur dealt with three stable triple ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"In the solid form rhombic sulphur has a specific gravity of from to, ... Ordinary rhombic Sulphur.— This is the form in which native crystalline sulphur ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Ordinary rhombic Sulphur.— This is the form in which native crystalline ... Ordinary rhombic sulphur melts at about° F., and boils (under a pressure of 760 ..."

7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"H20, obtained by dissolving formate of lead (CHO)'J in a hot nearly saturated solution of the nitrate, crystallises by slow cooling in large rhombic plates, ..."

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