Square vs. Rhombus: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Published on January 22, 2024
Square is a quadrilateral with all sides equal and angles of 90 degrees. Rhombus is a quadrilateral with all sides equal but angles not necessarily 90 degrees.
Key Differences
A square is a special type of rectangle where all four sides are equal in length, and each angle measures 90 degrees. In contrast, a rhombus, while also having four equal sides, does not require right angles. Its opposite angles are equal, but they can be of any measure, not restricted to 90 degrees.
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In terms of symmetry, squares have both line and rotational symmetry due to their equal sides and angles. Rhombuses, on the other hand, typically only have line symmetry unless they happen to be squares as well, which makes them unique among parallelograms.
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The diagonal properties in a square are quite distinct; they bisect each other at right angles and are of equal length. In a rhombus, while the diagonals bisect each other, they do so at non-right angles and are usually of different lengths, except in the special case where the rhombus is a square.
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Regarding usage in geometry, squares are often used as units of measurement and are synonymous with "right angles" or "orthogonality." Rhombuses, being less rigid in their angular constraints, are frequently used to illustrate properties like side equality and diagonal intersection in quadrilaterals.
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Finally, in terms of area calculation, a square's area is calculated as side length squared, emphasizing its symmetrical nature. The area of a rhombus, however, is typically calculated using the product of its diagonals, reflecting its varied angular properties.
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Comparison Chart
Diagonals
Equal in length and bisect at right angles.
Bisect each other but not at right angles.
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Symmetry
Has both line and rotational symmetry.
Usually has only line symmetry.
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Usage in Geometry
Represents orthogonality and uniformity.
Illustrates side equality and diagonal properties.
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Square and Rhombus Definitions
Square
To align or position something at a right angle.
The carpenter squared the frame to ensure it was perfectly aligned.
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Rhombus
A four-sided figure with all sides of equal length.
The child's toy was shaped like a colorful rhombus.
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Square
An open area in a town, often in the shape of a square.
We met up in the town square for the festival.
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Rhombus
A rhombus-shaped feature used in design and architecture.
The windows of the modern building were in the form of rhombuses.
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Rhombus
Often used interchangeably with 'diamond' in common language.
The pattern on her dress consisted of several rhombuses.
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Rhombus
A specific type of parallelogram with equal sides.
In geometry class, we learned that every rhombus is a parallelogram.
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Square
A T-shaped or L-shaped instrument for drawing or testing right angles.
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Rhombus
Used in various cultural and artistic contexts as a symbol.
The artist used a rhombus to represent balance and symmetry in his painting.
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Square
(Mathematics) The product obtained when a number or quantity is multiplied by itself
49 is the square of 7.
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Rhombus
An equilateral parallelogram, especially one having oblique angles. Also called rhomb.
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Square
Abbr. Sq. An open, usually four-sided area at the intersection of two or more streets, often planted with grass and trees for use as a park.
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Rhombus
The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards (♦ or ♦).
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Square
A rectangular space enclosed by streets and occupied by buildings; a block.
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Rhombus
In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.
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Square
The flower bud of a cotton plant, with three bracts surrounding the unopened flower in a pyramidal structure.
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Rhombus
Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.
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Square
(Slang) A person who is regarded as dull, rigidly conventional, and out of touch with current trends.
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Rhombus
A parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
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Square
In alignment or flush
Put the paper square with the edge of the desk.
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Square
Having a specified length in each of two equal dimensions
A room that is 12 feet square.
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Square
(Nautical) Set at right angles to the mast and keel. Used of the yards of a square-rigged ship.
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Square
Approximately rectangular and equilateral in cross section
A square house.
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Square
Having all accounts settled; even
I paid what I owed you, so we're square.
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Square
To test or adjust for conformity to a desired plane, straight line, or right angle.
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Square
To bring into conformity or agreement
She could not square the request with her principles.
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Square
To bring (oneself) into a better position or relation
He tried to square himself with his parents.
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Square
(Informal) To bribe or fix
A party in litigation that tried to square the judge.
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Square
(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
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Square
A cell in a grid.
You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
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Square
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
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Square
(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
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Square
(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
Column inch
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Square
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
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Square
An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
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Square
(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
64 is the square of 8.
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Square
(military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
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Square
A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
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Square
(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
Enter your account number followed by a square.
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Square
(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
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Square
(real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
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Square
(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
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Square
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Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
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Square
(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
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Square
(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
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Square
A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
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Square
(of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not rack or leaning.
The foundation has to be level and the framing has to be square.
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Square
(nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
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Square
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
Square metre
Square mile
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Square
Honest; straightforward; fair.
I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
Square dealing
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Square
Even; tied
To make or leave the accounts square
The sides were square at the end of the half.
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Square
Solid, decent, substantial.
It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
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Square
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
A man of a square frame
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Square
(transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
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Square
(nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
To square the yards
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Square
(rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
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Square
(ambitransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
John can square this question up for us.
These results just don't square with what we expected.
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Square
(transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
To square our actions by the opinions of others
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Square
Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
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Square
To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
Square the circle
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Square
(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
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Square
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
To square mason's work
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Square
Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches.
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Square
An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.
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Square
An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
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Square
The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8
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Square
Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.
I have not kept my square.
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Square
A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
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Square
Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
We live not on the square with such as these.
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Square
The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
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Square
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
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Square
Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
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Square
Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her.
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Square
Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
By Heaven, square eaters.More meat, I say.
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Square
At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; - said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
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Square
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square masons' work.
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Square
To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
Square my trialTo my proportioned strength.
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Square
To make even, so as to leave no remainder or difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
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Square
To hold a quartile position respecting.
The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales.
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Square
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
No works shall find acceptance . . .That square not truly with the Scripture plan.
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Square
To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
Are you such foolsTo square for this?
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Square
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon;
You can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides
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Square
The product of two equal terms;
Nine is the second power of three
Gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
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Square
Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles;
A checkerboard has 64 squares
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Square
A hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles;
The carpenter who built this room must have lost his square
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Square
Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle;
A square peg in a round hole
A square corner
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Square
Characterized by honesty and fairness;
A square deal
Wanted to do the square thing
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Square
Without evasion or compromise;
A square contradiction
He is not being as straightforward as it appears
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Square
In a straight direct way;
Looked him squarely in the eye
Ran square into me
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Square
With honesty and fairness;
Dealt squarely with his customers
Always treated me square
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Square
In a square shape;
A squarely cut piece of paper
Folded the sheet of paper square
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Square
Firmly and solidly;
Hit the ball squarely
The bat met the ball squarely
Planted his great bulk square before his enemy
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Square
A four-sided figure with equal sides and right angles.
The chessboard is made up of black and white squares.
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Square
A number that is the square of an integer.
16 is a square, as it is 4 times 4.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
Are all rhombuses squares?
No, not all rhombuses are squares because they may not have right angles.
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Can a rhombus be a rectangle?
No, a rhombus cannot be a rectangle as its angles are not necessarily 90 degrees.
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Are all squares rhombuses?
Yes, all squares are rhombuses since they have four equal sides.
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How do you differentiate a square from a rhombus?
By checking the angles; squares have right angles, while rhombuses might not.
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What is the area formula for a square?
Area of a square = side length squared.
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What is the perimeter of a rhombus?
Perimeter of a rhombus = 4 times one side length.
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What is a unique property of a square?
A unique property of a square is that all its angles are right angles.
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What is the area formula for a rhombus?
Area of a rhombus = product of diagonals divided by 2.
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How do the diagonals of a square and rhombus differ?
Square's diagonals are equal and bisect at right angles, while a rhombus' diagonals bisect but not at right angles.
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Is a square a regular polygon?
Yes, a square is a regular polygon as it has equal sides and angles.
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What is the perimeter of a square?
Perimeter of a square = 4 times the side length.
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Do squares and rhombuses have the same diagonals?
No, squares have equal diagonals that bisect at right angles, unlike rhombuses.
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Is a rhombus a regular polygon?
No, a rhombus is not a regular polygon since its angles can vary.
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What kind of symmetry does a rhombus have?
A rhombus typically has line symmetry.
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Is it possible for a rhombus to have right angles?
Yes, if a rhombus has right angles, it is also a square.
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Can a rhombus have unequal sides?
No, in a rhombus, all sides are of equal length.
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In terms of geometry, how is a square used?
A square is used to represent right angles and uniformity.
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Can the sides of a square be of different lengths?
No, in a square, all sides must be of equal length.
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What kind of symmetry does a square have?
A square has both line and rotational symmetry.
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In terms of geometry, how is a rhombus used?
A rhombus is used to illustrate side equality and diagonal properties in quadrilaterals.
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