While constructing a rhombus, I draw arcs of same length from different end points of adjacent sides. Now I connect the intersection points of the arcs with the common point of the 2 adjacent sides with a line segment. What is this line segment called?

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Consider quadrilateral in the diagram above. Adjacent sides PQ and QR are connected at the end points using diagonal PR.

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