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Rectangular

adjective

Having four right angles.

Having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles. Synonym: orthogonal. "A rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"

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"Rectangular" Quotes from Famous Books

... jocular fragment of drapery. On one terribly brittle shoulder the droll lump of its neckless head ridiculously lived. There was in this complete silent doll a gruesome truth of instinct, a success of uncanny poignancy, an unearthly ferocity of rectangular emotion. ...

— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... completely by the shooting of bolts. With the opening of the door I saw the figures of Gabord and Voban. My little friend the mouse saw them also, and scampered from the bread it had been eating, away among the corn, through which my footsteps had now made two rectangular paths, not disregarded by Gabord, who solicitously pulled Voban into the narrow track, that he should ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... require three yards of round web. Sew the web into a rectangular piece three inches ...

— Spool Knitting • Mary A. McCormack

... half hysterical for these few moments, but we steadied quickly enough as we approached the Power House's lower entrance. The building was a rectangular structure some two hundred feet long. It was fastened upon great brackets to the perpendicular side of the dam and jutted out some fifty feet. It was two levels in height—a total of about forty feet to its flat roof, in the center of which was set a small oval tower. ...

— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... design which characterizes the work makes it probable that the original plans were adhered to till the whole was finished. Nothing could be simpler than the general idea; but the effect is very fine. The ground-floor of the facade, about 150 yards long, is pierced by a number of rectangular doors, over which are two rows of pointed windows, each exactly above the other, and all of the same style. In the upper row every second window is filled up, and contains the statue of some historical character. At each end there ...

— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond

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