rectangle
noun
rect·an·gle
ˈrek-ˌtaŋ-gəl 
: a parallelogram all of whose angles are right angles
especially
: one with adjacent sides of unequal length
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The sweet spot viewing experience for me was a rectangle on the wall measuring between 10 and 20 inches.
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Paul Ridden
may 09, New Atlas, 9 May 2025
Sixteen hockey executives in little Zoom rectangles on the ESPN screen at 7 p.m. on Monday — 15 general managers and one Miracle on Ice/four-time Stanley Cup winner.
—Arthur Staple, New York Times, 6 May 2025
One to two sandwiches cut into crustless rectangles or triangles will nicely fill a tiered tray or a small platter.
—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 May 2025
Usually surfaces in a plane, such as a rectangle or a circle, are two-dimensional.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
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Paul Ridden
may 09, New Atlas, 9 May 2025
Sixteen hockey executives in little Zoom rectangles on the ESPN screen at 7 p.m. on Monday — 15 general managers and one Miracle on Ice/four-time Stanley Cup winner.
—Arthur Staple, New York Times, 6 May 2025
One to two sandwiches cut into crustless rectangles or triangles will nicely fill a tiered tray or a small platter.
—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 May 2025
Usually surfaces in a plane, such as a rectangle or a circle, are two-dimensional.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Rectangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rectangle. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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rectangle
noun
rect·an·gle
ˈrek-ˌtaŋ-gəl
: a four-sided polygon that has four right angles and each pair of opposite sides parallel and of the same length
Etymology
from Latin rectangulus "having a right angle," from earlier Latin rectus "right" and angulus "angle"
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