Rectangular meaning

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Having the shape of a rectangle.
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Having right angles or a rectangular base, side, or sides.

A rectangular box.

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Shaped like a rectangle; having four sides and four right angles.
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Having right-angled corners, or a base in the form of a rectangle, as a building.
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Right-angled.
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Having a shape like a rectangle.
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Designating a geometric coordinate system with mutually perpendicular axes.
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Rectangular Sentence Examples

  • It is built on the usual rectangular plan and the streets are wide and well paved.

  • When it is desired to have a uniform magnet with definitely situated poles, it it usual to employ one having the form of an ovoid, or elongated ellipsoid of revolution, instead of a rectangular or cylindrical bar.

  • The distribution of magnetism and the position of the poles in magnets of other shapes, such as cylindrical or rectangular bars, cannot be specified by any general statement, though approximate determinations may be obtained experimentally in individual cases.'

  • The plan usually adopted is to collect the latex in rectangular tanks or casks.

  • Brazil's chief industrial importance is due to its situation in the heart of the "Brazil block" coal (so named because it naturally breaks into almost perfect rectangular blocks) and clay and shale region; among its manufactures are mining machinery and tools, boilers, paving and enamelled building bricks, hollow bricks, tiles, conduits, sewer-pipe and pottery.

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