Rhombic may refer to:
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Rhombus, a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length (often called a diamond)
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Rhombic antenna
A rhombic antenna is made of four sections of wire suspended parallel to the ground in a diamond or "rhombus" shape. Each of the four sides is the same length – about a quarter-wavelength to one wavelength per section – converging but not to ...
, a broadband directional antenna most commonly used on shortwave frequencies
* polyhedra formed from rhombuses, such as the
rhombic dodecahedron or the
rhombic triacontahedron or the
rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb or the
rhombic icosahedron or the
rhombic hexecontahedron
In geometry, a rhombic hexecontahedron is a stellation of the rhombic triacontahedron. It is nonconvex with 60 golden rhombic faces with icosahedral symmetry. It was described mathematically in 1940 by Helmut Unkelbach.
It is topologically ident ...
or the
rhombic enneacontahedron
In geometry, a rhombic enneacontahedron (plural: rhombic enneacontahedra) is a polyhedron composed of 90 Rhombus, rhombic faces; with three, five, or six rhombi meeting at each vertex. It has 60 broad rhombi and 30 slim. The rhombic enneacontahedr ...
or the
trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron
* other things that exhibit the shape of a rhombus, such as
rhombic tiling
In geometry, the rhombille tiling, also known as tumbling blocks, reversible cubes, or the dice lattice, is a tessellation of identical 60° rhombus, rhombi on the Euclidean plane. Each rhombus has two 60° and two 120° angles; rhombi with this ...
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Rhombic Chess
Rhombic chess is a chess variant for two players created by Tony Paletta in 1980.Pritchard (1994), p. 255 The gameboard has an overall hexagonal shape and comprises 72 rhombi in three alternating colors. Each player commands a full set of stand ...
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rhombic drive,
Rhombic Skaapsteker
''Psammophylax rhombeatus'' (psammo=sand, phylax=guard) or Rhombic Skaapsteker, is a small, attractively patterned, Southern African snake usually measuring between 45 and 85 centimetres in length, though occasionally reaching 140 cm.
In co ...
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rhombic egg eater
''Dasypeltis scabra'', known as the common egg eater, egg-eating snake or rhombic egg eater, is a species of colubrid snake endemic to Africa.
Geographic range
''Dasypeltis scabra'' is found in sub-Saharan Africa. It can also be found in Saudi A ...
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rhombic night adder
''Causus rhombeatus'', commonly known as the rhombic night adder, is a viper species endemic to subsaharan Africa. No subspecies are currently recognized. Like all other vipers, it is venomous.
Description
With an average total length (body + ta ...
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forest rhombic night adder
''Causus maculatus'' is viper species found mainly in West- and Central Africa. No subspecies are currently recognized. Common names include forest rhombic night adder,Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinolo ...
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