A rhombus is a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel and all sides the same length,
i.e., an equilateral parallelogram .
The word rhomb is sometimes used instead of rhombus, and a rhombus is sometimes also
called a diamond. A rhombus with is sometimes called a lozenge .
The polygon diagonals and
of a rhombus are perpendicular and satisfy
(1)
The diagonals are related to the opening angle by
The area of a rhombus is given by
The rhombus is a tangential quadrilateral with , and so has inradius
See also Diamond ,
Golden Rhombus ,
Harborth's Tiling ,
Kite ,
Lozenge ,
Necker Cube ,
Parallelogram ,
Quadrilateral ,
Rhombic Dodecahedron ,
Rhombic
Hexecontahedron ,
Rhombic Icosahedron ,
Rhombic Triacontahedron ,
Rhombohedron ,
Rhomboid ,
Skew Quadrilateral ,
Trapezium ,
Trapezoid
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