rectangular
/rɛkˈtaŋɡjʊlə
/adjective
1Denoting or shaped like a rectangle: a neat rectangular area...
- Huge trees defined the edges of the rectangular area.
- Actually, had the cloth been kept in a frame for such a long period there would have been an age-yellowed, rectangular area at the top.
- Thus, during viewing in the otherwise dark laboratory, the observer saw a rectangular area of light against a dark background.
1.1(Of a solid) having a base, section, or side shaped like a rectangle: a rectangular prism...
- They then proceeded to hammer the rough edges off the stone and shape it into a rough rectangular solid in preparation for sawing.
- The small flashlight he usually had hanging on his utility belt was bright enough to light up the cold, gray rectangular prism.
- While the majority of buildings were more or less rectangular prisms, this building looked more like the Senate Chamber in Denivan City.
2Placed or having parts placed at right angles.To complicate matters, he wanted the button style to be flexible enough that left-hand corners could be rounded, and right-hand corners could be rectangular corners, or vice versa (Figure 1)....
- Therefore, to draw an ellipse, you specify its rectangular corners.
Derivatives
rectangularity
- But its clean rectangularity, matte walls and mahogany paneling is perfectly inhabitable and the colourful tapestry opposite the long registration/concierge desk provides a contrast to the prevailing browns and beiges.
- Repeated use and multiple washings have distorted the cloths' flat rectangularity and ruffled their regular edges, adding poetry and softness to this simple geometric structure.
rectangularly
- A structure is provided which is used for a rectangularly arrayed miniature light bulb series.
- The rectangularly-shaped building sits above a shallow crawl space and is underpinned by a concrete foundation that was poured in 1981.
Rhymes
- free-swimming
- freetail
- free-tailed
- free-tailed bat
- free television
- free text
- freethinker
- freethinking
- free-thought
- free throw
- free-throw circle
- free-throw lane
- free-to-air
- Freetown
- free trade
- free-trader
- free-trading
- free-tradist
- free transfer
- free TV
- free union
- free university
- free variable
- free vector
- free verse