rectangularlyadv.
/rɛkˈtaŋɡjᵿləli/, U.S. /ˈrɛktæŋɡjələrli/ At right angles; in a rectangular manner or form.
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the world > space > relative position > position at right angles to something > [adverb]
straightly1395
squarewise1546
directly1559
orthogonally?a1560
perpendicularly1570
rightly1594
square1631
rectangularly1646
right-angular1676
normally1869
squarely1873
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [adverb] > at right angles
in a square?a1560
orthogonally?a1560
by equiangles1593
rectangularly1646
right-angularly1670
square1680
normally1869
squarely1873
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 62 At the Æquator thereof the needle will stand rectangularly . View more context for this quotation
1772 L. Carter Diary 10 Aug. (1965) II. 710 The rows running rectangularly to the Northwest winds.
1780 Characters Present Most Celebrated Courtezans 184 She is the only animal we have either seen or heard of, whose upper and lower rows of teeth were placed rectangularly.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 509 The city is exceedingly handsome, and the streets intersect each other rectangularly.
1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 423 The hypocotyl bends in a few hours rectangularly towards a bright lateral light.
1907 G. A. Escoffier Guide Mod. Cookery ii. xv. 462 Shape the crépinettes thus formed rectangularly.
1988 Nature 21 Jan. 227/2 The field of view covered a segment of a circle, which was then stored in the rectangularly shaped detector.
2000 T. Lange in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen First Computers iii. 329 A ring modulator is used,..which chops up the input signal, not rectangularly, but sinusoidally.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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