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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

rhomboidal en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape
    • The coupled model is global in domain and consists of GCMs of the atmosphere (spectral model with rhomboidal 30 truncation, corresponding to an approximate resolution of 3.75° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 14 vertical levels) and ocean (1.875° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 18 vertical levels). 2001 April 13, Sydney Levitus et al., “Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's Climate System”, in Science, volume 292, number 5515, →DOI, pages 267–270:
    • Bisect it by a line drawn diagonally from the angles, and after this bisecting bring together the outlines of the figure so that it may present a rhomboidal design, reducing it by one sixth of its length and one fourth of its breadth at the (obtuse) angles. 1914, Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph.D., Ll.D., Ten Books on Architecture:

Forms

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more rhomboidal Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most rhomboidal Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

subrhomboidal · trirhomboidal · rhomboidally