Trapezoid vs. Rhombus

Trapezoidnoun

A (convex) quadrilateral with two (non-adjacent) parallel sides.

Trapezoidnoun

A convex quadrilateral with no sides parallel and no equal sides.

Trapezoidnoun

(anatomy) The trapezoid bone of the wrist.

Trapezoidnoun

A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.

Trapezoidnoun

A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.

Trapezoidadjective

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

Trapezoidadjective

Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.

Trapezoidnoun

a quadrilateral with two parallel sides

Trapezoidnoun

the wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones

Trapezoid

In Euclidean geometry, a convex quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides is referred to as a trapezium () in English outside North America, but as a trapezoid () in American and Canadian English. The parallel sides are called the bases of the trapezoid and the other two sides are called the legs or the lateral sides (if they are not parallel; otherwise there are two pairs of bases).

Rhombusnoun

Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.

Rhombusnoun

Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.

Rhombusnoun

(geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.

Rhombusnoun

Same as Rhomb, 1.

Rhombusnoun

a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram

Rhombusnoun

a quadrilateral all of whose sides have the same length.

Rhombus

In plane Euclidean geometry, a rhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses) is a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length. Another name is equilateral quadrilateral, since equilateral means that all of its sides are equal in length.