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noun

a parallelogram having four right angles.

Origin:
1565–75; < Medieval Latin rēctangulum, Late Latin rēctiangulum right-angled triangle (noun use of neuter of rēctiangulus having a right angle), equivalent to rēcti- recti- + angulum angle¹

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Turn onto lightly floured surface and pat into shape of small rectangle.

Each test involved a jazzy rectangle crossing the screen either before or after a plain one.

Use these dimensions to cut a rectangle from the paper you are recycling.

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Turn onto lightly floured surface and pat into shape of small rectangle.

Each test involved a jazzy rectangle crossing the screen either before or after a plain one.

Use these dimensions to cut a rectangle from the paper you are recycling.

The brain realizes that a rectangle must be opaque to occlude the four black disks.

Furthermore, the piece can be arranged in one of two ways: a mound in a corner or in a rectangle on the floor.

You'll need a mighty big spaceship to make that rectangle.

Roll dough to a rectangle on a floured board using a lightly floured rolling pin.

Have them click and drag a rectangle around the approximate area of their home state to zoom in on that region.

Simply give the animal cheese every time it picks the rectangle, and it will soon learn to select the rectangle every time.

Next it has him connect the lines across the top and bottom, resulting in a long rectangle broken into eight boxes.

The centerpiece is a deep-fried panko-crusted rectangle of firm tofu, golden and crusty outside, and creamy inside.

Click and drag a rectangle around your state to zoom in.

One enters from outside of the rectangle and the goal is to exit.

Six balls haphazardly careen around inside the largely barren rectangle of the game space.

Brush the exposed borders of dough on each rectangle with the egg wash.

Immatures show a light rectangle at the base of the primaries.

In the right illusion, the gray appears as a rectangle behind the black bars.

The same thing happens when they're exposed to a long and narrow yellow rectangle.

Carefully lay out one rectangle of phyllo-strudel pastry.

Sterile towels covered his face and entire torso except for a large rectangle perfectly framing the incision area.

Each column wants to exit the border of the rectangle on the side opposite from where it comes.

Simply place a square photo slightly above centre in a white rectangle an it is instantly recognizable.

Carefully lay a second rectangle on top of the first.

Don't always use the camera rectangle to frame your picture.

Take the limit as the rectangle height goes to zero and the number of rectangles goes to infinity.

On a lightly floured board, roll each portion into a six-inch-by-four-inch rectangle.

Backlit wings show a light rectangle at the base of the primaries.

The red rectangle is textured, the golden disc smooth, mirrored.

Lightly oil your hands and shape dough into a rough rectangle.

After a few miles, a gray rectangle of gravel rose on the right bank six feet or so above the tundra.

Suspend the loop half-way down from the top border of the rectangle.

Right triangles are important because they're what you get if you cut a rectangle in half along its diagonal:.

Cut a rectangle into the cylinder big enough to allow you to slip it over your pop-up flash.

Taylor up in a throbbing rectangle of stage space outlined in softly flashing light.

Here's what you do: cut a long rectangle on white paper.

Peel potatoes and cut sides and ends flat so that potato is a solid rectangle four inches long.

Comiskey shows me a flexible rectangle of clear plastic, with copper edges and a wire emerging from each side.

Turn out onto a large sheet of plastic wrap, press the dough together and form into a rectangle.

With its blue toned rectangle painted above a lower orange-ochre rectangle, it looked familiar.

Weingarten's canvas, which is not a true rectangle but a lopsided parallelogram.

She carefully arrayed slices of corned beef on a small rectangle of buttered bread, draping the meat over the sides.

The impeccable rectangle of linen, starched and untouchable, was another.

The long, long rectangle of a room has a glow, and so does everyone in it.

Drain on paper towels and serve hot, each prune on a rectangle of toast.

Place the dough on a lightly floured surface and pat into a flattened rectangle.

Roll dough lightly in flour, using your hands to flatten it into a rectangle about the width of your pasta machine.

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rectangle (ˈrɛkˌtæŋɡ^əl)

—n
	Compare rhombus a parallelogram having four right angles

[C16: from Medieval Latin rectangulum, from Latin rectus straight + angulus angle]

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Word Origin & History

rectangle

1571, from M.Fr. rectangle, from rect-, comb. form of L. rectus "right" + O.Fr. angle (see angle). M.L. rectangulum meant "a triangle having a right angle" (7c.).

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rectangle

(rěk'tāng'gəl) Pronunciation Key
A four-sided plane figure with four right angles.

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"Speedometers, for example, may be digital and give a numeric readout, or analog and produce a lengthening rectangle (or rotating pointer). The analog output is less precise, but puts one's speed in some perspective. An 82 and a 28 are almost indistinguishable, but a long rectangle is quite distinct from a short one, and if its length is changing, that too is manifest. The same trade-off is present with clocks and watches, digital timepieces producing precision, but lacking in all the associations a clockface can engender."

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