Quadrangle vs Rhomboid - What's the difference?
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(geometry) A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
A courtyard which is quadrangular.
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The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.
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A parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle
Any of several muscles that control the shoulders
A solid shape which has rhombic faces
resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid
As nouns the difference between quadrangle and rhomboid
is that quadrangle is (geometry) a geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon while rhomboid is a parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle.As an adjective rhomboid is
resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid.quadrangle
English
(wikipedia quadrangle)Noun
(en noun)- I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle , settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.
- The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never considered absolutely essential to the Devon School.