rectangledadj.
/ˈrɛktaŋɡld/, U.S. /ˈrɛkˌtæŋɡəld/ 1. Containing one or more right angles; lying at right angles; = right-angled adj. 1. Cf. rectangle adj. Now rare or disused.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [adjective] > right-angled
square1551
orthogonal?a1560
rectangled1570
normal1650
orthogonial1660
rectangulate1852
the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective] > constituting an angle > right > with parts or lines right-angled to each other
right-cornered1551
right-angled?a1560
rectangled1570
rectanguled1636
rectangular1703
right-angular1704
rectangulate1852
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 232 A figure..which may be any other rectiline figure rectangled or not rectangled, triangle, pentagone, trapezite, or what so euer ells.
1611 A. Hopton Speculum Topographicum ii. 8 A Paralelogram..may be Rectangled, or Obliquangled.
1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons sig. A3v, in Elements Philos. The way of Analysis by Squares, Cubes, &c. is very antient, and usefull for the finding out whatsoever is contained in the nature and generation of rectangled Plains.
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Astron. ii. v. 352 A Rectangled Parallelogram D O R E.
1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 416 Gems derived from the rectangled octoedra.
1817 Times 17 Oct. 3/2 The whole of the building forms a rectangled parallelogram.
1837 J. Phillips Treat. Geol. I. vi. 136 The planes of the joints and fissures are stated by Mr. Murchison to be nearly rectangled to the planes of the strata.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxvi. 316 The one is a rectangled, and the other an equilateral, triangle.
1890 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 341/1 It is in the nature of a corner..that it should be square; and in the support of its rectangled sides there is something that braces and reassures.
1902 J. C. Harris Gabriel Tolliver xxx. 403 Call me a hyperbole, a rectangled triangle, a parenthesis, or a hyphen.
1935 Columbia Law Rev. 35 669 I was reminded of how I used, in high school,..to get the answer, but with no picture of a rectangled triangle, or of the relation of side to diagonal.
2. Containing or composed of rectangles; divided into rectangles; contained within a rectangle.
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1915 J. G. Neihardt Song of Hugh Glass ii. 206 He saw the portal yawn And saw a bright rectangled patch of dawn.
1973 Amer. Math. Monthly Oct. 880 To provide it we add a ‘fixed ratio’ condition, one that introduces the width-to-length ratio c of the ‘rectangled’ rectangle to be derived from S+.
1983 C. G. Davis Entity–Relationship Approach Software Engin. 431 This equivalence relation induces a partition of the set of rectangled representations of a given graph into equivalence classes.
2002 A. Proulx That Old Ace in Hole (2003) xi. 126 Some of the flattest terrain on earth, tractor-chewed and rectangled, rugged breaks and plunging canyons.
2006 Jrnl. Struct. Biol. 155 484 (caption) Rectangled dashed zone corresponds to main image.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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