Length vs Height Determining the length and height of an object may be a little confusing for some who did

not have a clear grasp of the concept of geometry. Length, by custom, is referred to as the longest line or side of an object. For a parallelogram, an object with parallel sides (i.e. a rectangle), the length is its longest line. It describes how long an object is. This description, though, may become confusing when you change the position of the rectangle such as when you make it lie on the horizontal surface using its longest side. In this sense, the original height became its length while its original length became its height. In the case of a square, the length is any of its sides because no side is longer or smaller than another. It is also convenient to say that length is the lateral side of an object which is parallel to the surface or ground or the X plane in geometric graphical representations. By contrast, height is a different measure because it is the vertical side of an object. It is, therefore, not parallel to the surface. Rather, it is parallel to the Y plane in the geometric graph. Being parallel to this plane enables the height to be perpendicular with the horizontal plane forming right angles. By its colloquial interpretation, this still holds true because the height is normally referred to as the floor-to-ceiling measurement of something. This, therefore, describes how tall an object is. In a practical application, describing how tall trees and buildings are requires you to know their respective heights. Height can also refer, not only to how tall something is, but how high it is from the standard ground level. In the sky, for example, the planes height is usually interpreted as its altitude. If one will say that it is 1,000 meters above sea level, then the plane is 1,000 meters from the ground or from the level of the sea. In another context, height and length differ because the height sort of measures the linear distance of an entire object or creature from its lowest point to its highest point while the length just measures one of its parts. A good example is when one would describe the length of the giraffes legs as opposed to its overall height. One can never describe it in terms of the height of its legs and the length of the zebra, which is more or less inappropriate. Length and height are similar in the sense that they are all linear-type measurements. Hence, they almost have the same type of measuring units used no matter what system of measurement. For example, height and length can both be expressed in terms of feet, inches, meters, and many other more. Summary: 1.Height refers to how tall an object is while length is how long. 2.Height can also refer to how high up an object is with respect to the ground level. 3.Length is customarily considered as the longest side or line of an object particularly among rectangle-shaped objects. 4.Length is parallel to the X plane while height is parallel to the Y plane. 5.Among squares, the length is any of its sides.

Length vs Width There is currently some confusion going on when distinguishing length from width. The problem is that the descriptions of the two are somewhat different depending on where you learned it. If its within the confines of your classroom, most students are taught in mathematics that a rectangle parallelogram (with parallel sides) will have its longest side as the length while the shorter side is the width. This is regardless of whether the longer side is the vertical side or the horizontal side. However, many have observed that the length is usually the vertical, and the width is the one in line with the horizontal plane. The confusion continues because in some other aspects the length is not always the longest measurement of an object. For example, some wires are actually thicker (width) as opposed to cutting their shorter lengths. FET transistors also have channel widths having greater measures than their channel length. In the laymans understanding, though, length is simply describing how long something is while width is telling someone how wide an object is. Width is otherwise known as the breadth. It is the distance from one side to the other side which measures across a particular shape or object whose lengths are forming right angles with the sides as in the case of a rectangle. Length and width are two fundamental one-dimensional units compared to the measurement of the rectangles area which is a product of two units, the length and width. There are many units of length used today. The most basic of which is the meter in the SI units of measurement. Other units for length are: foot, yard, mile, and inch for the Imperial or English units of measurement. There are also some non-SI length units like: micron, Norwegian mil, angstrom, and Fermi. Length can also refer to an extent of time like asking how long a certain activity will take. Some also use length in the same context as distance like when one says, Hold it at arms length! Summary: 1.Length is describing how long something is while width is describing how wide an object is. 2.In geometry, length pertains to the longest side of the rectangle while width is the shorter side. 3.Width is also known as height. 4.Length can also refer to an extent of time or a measure of distance. 5.The most common unit for measuring length is the meter.

Rhombus vs Parallelogram A parallelogram is a quadrilateral or four-sided figure in which the opposite sides are parallel. And because the opposite lines are parallel, hence the opposite angles are also equal. A rhombus, on the other hand, may be defined as an equilateral parallelogram. It is a four-sided figure which has all the four sides equal. This property of a rhombus is similar to a square. The distinguishing characteristic between the two is that a square has all the angles equal to 90 degrees, but in a rhombus only the opposite angles are equal. Still, there is a distinguishing feature that in a rectangle the opposite angle is equal to 90 degrees, but in the case of a rhombus, the angles are not equal to 90 degrees. They are supplementary angles. Thus we may say that every rhombus is a parallelogram but the converse is not true. A rhombus is also called as a diamond or a lozenge. We will take the help of the above figure to discuss a parallelogram and a rhombus one by one.

Rhombus In a rhombus: The sides AB=BC=CD=AD. The angle =angle and angle =angle . But angle =angle is unequal to angle =angle . The diagonals AC and BD intersect each other making a right angle (a right angle is an angle of 90 degrees) or are parallel to each other. The diagonals bisect the opposite angles. The circumference or perimeter of a rhombus may be calculated as: Circumference = 4 x side. Parallelogram In a parallelogram: The opposite sides are equal i.e., AB=CD and BC=AD. The angle =angle and angle =angle The angle may be equal to 90 degrees. (This is the case of a rectangle.) Each of the diagonals forms a triangle which is congruent to each other.

The diagonals bisect the opposite angles. The circumference or perimeter of a parallelogram may be calculated as: Circumference = 2 (AB + BC). Summary: In a parallelogram, the opposite sides are equal whereas in a rhombus all four sides are equal. In a parallelogram, the diagonals bisect each other whereas in a rhombus they do not bisect each other. In a rhombus, the diagonals intersect each other at right angles and hence are perpendicular to each other. It is not so in the case of a parallelogram. In a parallelogram, the angles may be equal to 90 degrees, but it can never be 90 degrees in the case of a rhombus. A rhombus may be regarded as a subset of a parallelogram.

Square vs Rhombus In geometry, you may have learned about squares and the rhombus. These are two shapes that have peculiar similarities because they fall under the same family of parallelograms or quadrilaterals. But before differentiating the two, it is best to know what a parallelogram really is. A parallelogram is just your basic quadrangle (a shape that has four quad angles). Its opposing sides are also parallel to each other thereby explaining its name. The opposing sides are termed as the bases of the shape, and the lateral distance drawn in-between the bases is termed as the height. Some parallelograms have angles of 90 degrees while other shapes dont necessarily form these right angles. If the parallelogram has right 90-degree angles, then it is either one of the two: a square or a rectangle. For a rectangle, its pair parallel sides are of equal dimension (length or width) while in a square, all the sides are of equal dimensions. By contrast, a rhombus is another parallelogram that, unlike the square, has no right angles. All of its sides have the same characteristics of being equal in length or width as in the case of squares. Because of its odd internal angular shape, the rhombus best represents the visual identity of a common diamond shape. The term itself is of Ancient Greek origin which translates as a spinning top. Another property of the rhombus is its opposing internal angles having the same angular measure. This means that the immediately adjacent angle of one corner inside the rhombus does not have the same angular measurement. In relation to the inside corner angles of the square being 90 degrees, the squares sides are perpendicular to one another unlike in the case of the rhombus. However, if you connect each corner of the rhombus to its opposite corner using two straight lines that are drawn through the middle of the shape, then youll come up with a central intersection that creates four right angle

diagonals. In this sense, the rhombus would seem to be divided into four congruent (equal) triangles. Summary: 1.A square is a parallelogram with right angles while a rhombus is another parallelogram without any right angles. 2.In a rhombus, its sides are not perpendicular to one another unlike in the case of squares. 3.Only the opposing internal angles of the rhombus have the same angular measures. All opposing angles of the square are the same (90 degrees). 4.A square is a very symmetric shape or object in terms of both its length and internal angular measures.