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rhomboid

[ UK /ɹˈɒmbɔ‍ɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid
    rhomboidal shapes
NOUN
  1. any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade
  2. a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal

How To Use rhomboid In A Sentence

  • Cppd crystals are smaller rods, squares, or rhomboids and are difficult to identify with light microscopy.
  • A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
  • A slip at the level of rhomboideus minor, named rhomboideus minimus, extends from the scapula to thoracic or lower cervical vertebral spines.
  • I was about to start drawing rhomboids and then stabbing the sharp part of the compass through the paper.
  • Some slips passing from the first and second ribs to the vertebral border of the scapula and supplied by the dorsal scapular nerve may be looked upon as belonging to the rhomboid sheet and therefore as variations of those muscles.
  • Muscles acting on the scapula in this section include serratus anterior, rhomboideus minor, rhomboideus major, trapezius, and deltoid.
  • a certain point, and fuffered to cool, long rhomboidal cryftals are afforded of a deep blue colour, called vitriolated copper, or blue vitriol; it appears therefore that vitriolic acid forms, with iron, green cryftals; vrith zinc, white cryftals i and with copper, blue cryf - tals. The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ...
  • It changed shape, from spherical to cuboid, then to pyramidal and to rhomboid. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Another hypothesis was that wind forces at ‘hot spots,’ which resulted from the rhomboid shape of the tower, caused overstressing of the glass.
  • The main upper-back muscles are the trapezius, rhomboids and levator scapulae.
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