Rhombus

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A rhombus is a polygon of four sides of equal length. The angles of each pair of opposite vertices are equal. A rhombus is a special case of a parallelogram where all four sides are of equal length. A square is a special case of rhombus, where all four vertex angles are equal.

Properties

Image:Rhombus.png
A rhombus with some mathematical properties shown

As with all quadrilaterals, the sum of the interior angles of a rhombus is 360 degrees; as with a parallelogram, it can be shown that the angles of opposite pairs of vertices are equal.

The perimeter of a rhombus is equal to 4 times the length of one side. The area of a square is equal to the length of the side multiplied by itself, multiplied by the sine of the angle between the sides.[1]

Any rhombus can tile a plane with no voids.

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