rectangle
noun
rect·an·gle
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Definition of rectangle
: a parallelogram all of whose angles are right angles
especially
: one with adjacent sides of unequal length
Examples of rectangle in a Sentence
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With The King, Michôd (the director behind Animal Kingdom and The Rover), has made a fine big-screen entertainment that most people will probably watch at home, on a Netflix-sized rectangle. — Time, "Timothée Chalamet’s Bad-Boy Monarch in The King Isn’t For Shakespeare Purists—He’s For All of Us," 3 Sep. 2019 His Case House Number 26, a long rectangle with a glass wall that looked out over a hillside in San Rafael, California, was admired but did not garner a lot of attention. — Wendy Goodman, Town & Country, "See Inside Jazz Great Dave Brubeck's Groovy Connecticut Home," 28 Aug. 2019 The pages’ centers slowly disappear, in their place a deepening rectangle. — Beatrix M. Rooney, Longreads, "Heartbreaker," 9 Aug. 2019 All of this plays out in a simple rectangle of light, with the actors creating the claustrophobic closeness needed to pull the play off. — Christine Dolen, sun-sentinel.com, "Review: ‘She Shorts’ puts women in the spotlight," 15 July 2019 This Alabama site holds 805 hanging, steel rectangles in the shape of coffins, each representing one of the U.S. counties where a documented lynching took place, as reported by legal advocacy nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative. — National Geographic, "13 destinations for African-American history and culture," 23 May 2019 Monitors evolved beyond being simple 27-inch rectangles. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "6 important CES 2019 reveals and trends that PC enthusiasts need to know about," 11 Jan. 2019 Another dryer, perched atop a plexiglass rectangle with fire inside, pulls smoke into a vortex. — Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, "Watch a Bunch of Hair Dryers Create Gravity-Defying Works of Art," 21 June 2015 Compared to spareribs, St. Louis-style ribs are uniform in shape (a beautiful rectangle!) and a little easier to work with. — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, "How to Buy the Right Kind of Pork Ribs," 21 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rectangle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for rectangle
rectangle
noun
English Language Learners Definition of rectangle
geometry
: a four-sided shape that is made up of two pairs of parallel lines and that has four right angles
especially
: a shape in which one pair of lines is longer than the other pair
See the full definition for rectangle in the English Language Learners Dictionary
rectangle
noun
rect·an·gle
| \ ˈrek-ˌtaŋ-gəl
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Kids Definition of rectangle
: a flat geometric four-sided figure with right angles and with opposite sides parallel
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