rhombus

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They added a structure to one side of the rhombus to mimic a bomb-like object and observed how the droplet and its wave patterns changed in response.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023

I don’t know exactly what a leader in equity and well-being does, but I’d assume it involves a bunch of acronyms and maybe some other restorative shapes, like a triangle or a rhombus.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

The underside of the structure — as well as the ceiling in the exhibition spaces — will not be flat concrete, like an overpass, but will bear a rhombus pattern drawn from the building’s structure.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2020

“A buttered heel of bread, a rhombus of stiff cheese, a puckered tangerine,” we’re shown on the first page.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2017

Sure enough, within seconds, a distant rhombus of ocher light containing her outline widened, paused, then narrowed to nothing as she entered the house and the door was closed behind her.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan