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RHOMBUS

Volume 17 · 98 words · 1810 Edition

in Geometry, an oblique-angled parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure, whose sides are equal and parallel, but the angles unequal, two of the opposite ones being obtuse and two acute.

RHOMB Solid, consists of two equal and right cones joined together at their bases.

RHÔNE, one of the largest rivers in France, which, rising among the Alps of Switzerland, passes through the lake of Geneva, visits that city, and then runs south-west to Lyons; where, joining the river Soane, it continues its course due south, passing by Orange, Avignon, and Arles, and falls into the Mediterranean a little above Marfeilles.