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Definition of rectangular
1 : shaped like a rectangle a rectangular area
2a : crossing, lying, or meeting at a right angle rectangular axesb : having edges, surfaces, or faces that meet at right angles : having faces or surfaces shaped like rectangles rectangular parallelepipeds a rectangular solid
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Recent Examples of rectangular from the Web
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The night stands that flank his bed are part of the rounded rectangular set.
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The living rooms have giant rectangular windows that overlook the bright, blue sea.
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El Economista reported that archeologists have also found a wooden rectangular platform at the center with the imprint of 16 poles that created a kind of palisade.
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Kegler's Kove was a small rectangular room that wasn't designed for entertainment.
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The one facing the camera has her eyes shut tight behind rectangular glasses, her left hand pressing her partner’s head against her own, the other holding a sign: Be Proud.
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The comment came at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in a room with green tape on the floor in the shape of a rectangular box, along with about 100 people who came to participate in a sort of experiment about social isolation and ideological polarization.
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But politics is elsewhere, hard to compress into a rectangular frame.
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This rectangular building, preserved for special events by the Temecula Creek Inn, was a mess hall for local quarrymen in the 19th century.
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First Known Use of rectangular
circa 1560
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playDefinition of rectangular for Students
: shaped like a rectangle a rectangular building
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