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rectangle
[ rek-tang-guhl ]
noun
- a parallelogram having four right angles.
rectangle
/ rĕk′tăng′gəl /
- A four-sided plane figure with four right angles.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rectangle1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rectangle1
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Example Sentences
The heart of Wynwood is the six-block rectangle radiating from NW 2nd Avenue between 23rd and 26th Streets.
The moist rectangle of cooked meat and molten blob of cheese are then layered in a hard roll.
“I care only about what is on the square or rectangle in front of me,” he said.
In the same way that square or rectangle frames separate a work of art from “reality,” our homes frame, define and separate us.
A huge 35mm film projector, click-clacking in our midst, shines a red rectangle onto a screen.
This rampart of dwellings was in the shape of a rectangle, and enclosed a large square or plaza containing a noble reservoir.
The ground plan is a simple rectangle, as shown in Figure 36, without partitions.
In the darkened room, the device threw a rectangle of light on the wall.
If two of the parallel sides of a rectangle are longer than the other two sides, as in Figure 66, it is called an oblong.
A few dials and a glass meter hung beneath each two yard rounded-rectangle of opaque glass.
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