Rhombus

In plane Euclidean geometry, a rhombus (pl.: 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. The rhombus is often called a "diamond", after the diamonds suit in playing cards which resembles the projection of an octahedral diamond, or a lozenge, though the former sometimes refers specifically to a rhombus with a 60° angle (which some authors call a calisson after the French sweet—also see Polyiamond), and the latter sometimes refers specifically to a rhombus with a 45° angle.

Rhombus
A rhombus in two different orientations
Typequadrilateral, trapezoid, parallelogram, kite
Edges and vertices4
Schläfli symbol{ } + { }
{2α}
Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams
Symmetry groupDihedral (D2), [2], (*22), order 4
Area (half the product of the diagonals)
Propertiesconvex, isotoxal
Dual polygonrectangle

Every rhombus is simple (non-self-intersecting), and is a special case of a parallelogram and a kite. A rhombus with right angles is a square.

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