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rectangular
/ rɛkˈtæŋɡjʊlə /
adjective
- shaped like a rectangle
- having or relating to right angles
- mutually perpendicular
rectangular coordinates
- having a base or section shaped like a rectangle
Derived Forms
- recˌtanguˈlarity, noun
- recˈtangularly, adverb
Other Words From
- rec·tan·gu·lar·i·ty [rek-tang-gy, uh, -, lar, -i-tee], rec·tangu·lar·ness noun
- rec·tangu·lar·ly adverb
- nonrec·tangu·lar adjective
- nonrec·tangu·lar·ly adverb
- nonrec·tangu·lari·ty noun
- subrec·tangu·lar adjective
- unrec·tangu·lar adjective
- unrec·tangu·lar·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of rectangular1
Example Sentences
Its two mounting holes will work with pretty much any round, rectangular, or pod driving light.
Big Agnes makes a handful of killer sleeping bags for kids that pair with any 20-inch-wide rectangular pad.
Now she was eating three meals a day on a rectangular folding table at the edge of her bed.
Hanging upside down, the spider weaves a rectangular web between its legs.
Four of those llamas lay together beneath the floor of a large, rectangular structure, Lidio Valdez, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary in Canada, and his colleagues report in the December Antiquity.
A large rectangular hole, six feet deep, had been dug out of what was a garden.
A dressage competition takes place in an entirely flat and rectangular arena.
His kind eyes peer at you through rectangular-framed geek-chic spectacles.
About 40 yards away from the house, in the middle of a large grass lawn, is an ordinary looking rectangular hedge.
All lenses project circles; most cameras cut a square or rectangular image out of the middle of the optical pie.
It was round, with a small, rectangular projection for the operator's controls and calculator.
Sometimes the recess is rectangular instead of arched, and is then called by De Rossi sepolcro a mensa, or table tomb.
At the corners of the aisles are rectangular buttresses and two similar ones stand at the ends of the main walls of the nave.
De Rossi has prepared a map of the principal part of it, divided into fifteen rectilinear and generally rectangular areas.
The house is rectangular in shape, constructed of brick and has two built-in chimneys.
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