"rhombus" is a valid English word and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a four-sided geometric shape whose sides are all the same length and whose opposite sides are parallel to one another. For example, "The students traced the rhombus onto the paper."
That common touch, he thinks, is why the Germans identify so much with their chancellor that in the past few years they have started to call her Mutti—"Mum .The rhombus makes for a striking poster.
Ornamental designs in local artwork, those of the American Indians, for example, frequently have a symbolical meaning and embody fundamental figures, such as the straight line, circle, rectangle, rhombus, or ellipse.
The rhombus (an equilateral parallelogram usually having oblique angles) frequently occurs together with straight lines, equilateral triangles, squares, or circles, which permit an enormous number of variations, including stylized representations of human beings and animals.
In Crete, where the early civilization was so much influenced by those of Phoenicia and Egypt, the symbol for 10 was −, a circle was used for 100, and a rhombus for 1,000.
It is the gap at the centre of the composition that draws the eye, a pretty well perfect rhombus.
(sort of), bore her trademark cleavage rhombus with the pert aplomb of an actress who knows she can finally kick it with her superhero hubby and take on more "serious" roles.
The epigonation, or rhombus-shaped portion of silk hanging to below the right knee, is common both to bishops and archimandrites (head abbots).
The sea's major feature is a deep rhombus-shaped basin in the eastern part, with reef-studded shoals rising up steeply within the basin to the south (Reed and Tizard banks and the Nanshan Island area) and northwest (Paracel Islands and Macclesfield banks).
The major topographic feature of the South China Sea is a deep, rhombus-shaped basin in the eastern portion, with reef-studded shoal areas rising up steeply within the basin to the south and northwest.
Test-taker Daniel Lowen observed, however, that the answer really should be five, because the two pairs of adjacent triangular faces in the combined solid are actually coplanar, and therefore make two rhombus-shaped faces rather than four triangular faces.
There is a beautiful moment in one part of the installation: a rhombus-shaped polyptych by Ellsworth Kelly creates a rainbow spectrum that seems to recede into virtual space.
