rectangle
adjEtymology Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).
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Archaic Right-angled.
- a rectangle triangle
rectangle
noun/ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
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Such a quadrilateral that is oblong (longer than it is wide): one that is not regular (equilateral), that is, any except a square.
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Archaic A right angle.
- For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his Rectangles?1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 12.— Of the Doctrine of our Priests, page 46:
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Archaic The product of two quantities.
- In Lines it [the product] is always (and ſometimes in Numbers) call'd the Rectangle between the two Lines, multiply'd by one another.1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Product”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 886, column 1:
- Derived terms
- golden rectangle, hyperrectangle, love rectangle, open rectangle, rectagraph, rectangled, rectanglelike, roundrect, subrectangle
- Related terms
- rect angle, rectangular, rectification, rectify, rectilinear