rhombus

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

It was just wonderful: dimpled with pinky-prints, scattered with rhombi of flake salt and apostrophes of rosemary, and the bread's interior: marshmallowy, pillowy, cotton-candied, a tufted thing under an oleaginous crust.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2018

The A of his alphabet is the square, and the rest proceeds through ovals, rhombi, etc., in a code of images down to the Z shape itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

A path of broken rectangles and rhombi spilled crazily down the stairs, coming to rest on the heads of the wooden monkeys at the base.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

In “Bearings Charted With Yellow,” from 1946, the overlapping rhombuses have a dizzying effect, suggesting a teasing motion that doesn’t actually get anywhere, while “Bearings in Transition,” beside it, is as still as the grave.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2019

The bold background of orange and white rhombuses only hints at his avant-garde sensibilities.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2016

Sunlight cut through the window and sent rhombuses of light knifing across the garage space.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

The walls were irregularly covered with rhombuses, rhomboids, lozenges, diamonds, triangles, and parallelograms; the carpet was treated likewise, and also the upholstery and the cushions.

From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett

Even in such wise, if you will, that all the six faces are equal and similar rhombuses.

From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens