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rect

rect is the clipping of rectangle.

Meaning of rectangle

Noun

rectangle (plural rectangles)

  1. Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
  2. Such a quadrilateral that is oblong (longer than it is wide): one that is not regular (equilateral), that is, any except a square.
  3. (archaic) A right angle.
    • For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his Rectangles?1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 12.— Of the Doctrine of our Priests, page 46
  4. (archaic) The product of two quantities.
    • In Lines it [the product] is always (and ſometimes in Numbers) call'd the Rectangle between the two Lines, multiply'd by one another.1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Product”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page...

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Forms of rect

pluralrects

Questions about rect

What is rect the clipping of?
Rect is the clipping of rectangle.

Words near rect in the dictionary

  1. recrystallizing
  2. recrystallometer
  3. recrystallometers
  4. recrystallometry
  5. recs
  6. rect
  7. rect-
  8. rect.
  9. recta
  10. recta ratio
  11. rectagonal

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