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Definition of Rhomboidal
1. Adjective. Shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid. "Rhomboidal shapes"
Definition of Rhomboidal
1. a. Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.
Definition of Rhomboidal
1. Adjective. rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape ¹
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Definition of Rhomboidal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhomboidal
Literary usage of Rhomboidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"The right rhomboidal prism has a rhomboidal base and two unequal ... Placed upon
its rhomboidal base, it has two obtuse, e, e, and two acute, e, e, ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"Its cleavage is rhomboidal, or the folia of the cleavage are in the ... The fragments
are indeterminate angular and radier sharp-edged, or rhomboidal. ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"very broad and rhomboidal, the assemblage of which represents certain spiral shells.
But one species is known, which belongs to New Holland, S. Philippi, ..."
4. Manual of Practical Assaying: Intended for the Use of Metallurgists by John Mitchell (1854)
"Passage of the cube to the rhomboidal dodecahedron : — FIG. ... rhomboidal
dodecahedron. The three axes of the cube pass through the six four-faced summits. ..."
5. Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine by John Hughes Bennett (1866)
"They present a great variety of forms, the most common being rhomboidal. ...
Lozenge-shaped and rhomboidal crystals of uric acid. Fig. 103. ..."
6. An Introduction to Solid Geometry: And to the Study of Chrystallography by Nathaniel John Larkin (1820)
"Hence the volumes of the rhomboidal dodecahedron, and of its contained octahedron,
cube, and tetrahedron, will be to each other as the numbers 6, 4,3, ..."
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