单词 | rectangularness |
释义 | rectangularnessn. rare before late 20th cent. = rectangularity n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > property or quality of > having right angle rectangularity1645 rectangularness1727 normalcy1857 orthogonality1872 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Rectangularity, rectangularness, the being right-angled. 1855 D. S. Smalley Amer. Phonetic Dict. Eng. Lang. 391/1 Rectangularness, rectangularity. 1952 D. B. Boswell Text-bk. Bibliogr. 45 There still remained some other surviving Gothic characteristics; the horizontal stroke of the lower case ‘e’ was tilted, and there was a certain amount of rectangularness about the ‘m's’ and ‘n's’. 1989 M. F. Slattery Theory & Aesthetic Eval. Lit. ii. 39 The wall has its own character: concreteness, grayness,..and rectangularness. 1993 A. Cromer Uncommon Sense x. 194 The width of a rectangle divided by its length is an intrinsic property of the rectangle, its rectangularness. 2004 B. Ziporyn Being & Ambiguity ii. 173 An envelope lies on the floor. If I stare at it trying to feel its rectangularness, its whiteness, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1727 |
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