Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A four-sided plane figure with four right angles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rectangular; right-angled.
- n. A quadrilateral plane figure having all its angles right angles and its opposite sides consequently equal. When the adjacent sides are equal, it is a square. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of two adjacent sides; thus, if its sides measure 6 feet and 4 feet, its area is 24 square feet.
- n. The product of two lengths. Thus, especially in old books, “the rectangle under two lines” is spoken of, meaning substantially the product of their lengths.
- n. A right angle.
- n. A right-angled triangle.
Wiktionary
- n. geometry A quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Geom.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
- adj. rare Rectangular.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a parallelogram with four right angles
Etymologies
- From Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin rectanglum ("right angle"), from rectus ("right") + angulus ("an angle"). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Medieval Latin rēctangulum, a right triangle, from Late Latin rēctiangulum : Latin rēctus, right; see reg- in Indo-European roots + Latin angulus, angle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“The Tullock rectangle is the cost of rent-seeking.”
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“But I don't like the way the overall design looks as though someone created a plain rectangle in Photoshop, then slapped the image onto the top half and the contents onto the bottom.”
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“I found one that looks plausible – a square of lace, attached to the neck at one corner, with a plain rectangle underneath, both edged with the same pretty little edging.”
“Every time a blinding ivory rectangle is set in front of me, my mind puts words on the page.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rectangle’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Neoclassicism
Words to describe Neoclassicism
square, triangle, Pompeii, Athens, Greece, Rome, morals, form, strength, pillar, perfect, academic and 36 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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all the angles
and sides
rangle, fangle, fingle-fangle, bangle, dangle, gangle, jangle, mangle, tangle, wangle, wrangle, brangle and 82 more...
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Maths
addition, brackets, coefficient, cone, denominator, graph, mensuration, meridian, octagon, pentad, power, rate and 21 more...
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7th Grade Pre-Algebra
a collection of words we study in pre-algebra
geometry, algebra, line, point, ray, segment, probability, theoretical proba..., experimental prob..., outcome, cube, rectangular prism and 22 more...
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doublefourtime's Words
misogyny, twat, music, tuppence, apathy, moor, chuckle, conversation, ninja, bloody, gymkhana, naïve and 61 more...
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