rectangle

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).

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rectangle (plural rectangles)

1. (geometry) A quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

• (quadrilateral): oblong (not in technical use)

• (quadrilateral): square

• rectangular
• rectilinear
• rectification
• rectify
• (computing): tofu

• rectangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rectangle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rectangle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

• rectangular

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.tɑ̃ɡl/

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rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

• rectangulaire

rectangle (plural rectangles)

1. right-angled (of a geometric figure such as a triangle)

   Antonyms: obtusangle, acutangle

• “rectangle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• glacèrent