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单词 rectangulate
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rectangulateadj.

Brit. /rɛkˈtaŋɡjᵿlət/, U.S. /rɛkˈtæŋɡjələt/, /rɛkˈtæŋɡjəˌleɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rectangulum , -ate suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin rectangulum rectangle n. + -ate suffix1. Compare scientific Latin rectangulata (1758 as a specific name). Compare earlier rectangulate v., and also rectangled adj., rectangular adj., rectangle adj.
Chiefly Zoology and Botany.
Rectangular in shape; right-angled, square-cornered.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [adjective] > right-angled
square1551
orthogonal?a1560
rectangled1570
normal1650
orthogonial1660
rectangulate1852
the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective] > constituting an angle > right > with parts or lines right-angled to each other
right-cornered1551
right-angled?a1560
rectangled1570
rectanguled1636
rectangular1703
right-angular1704
rectangulate1852
1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 93 Posterior part of orbital margin salient, not acute, rectangulate.
1897 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 36 31 Furcula formed of apically rectangulate lobes.
1933 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 59 169 Cross nervures producing areolae usually quadrate or rectangulate in shape.
1973 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 100 351/2 The lateral leaves..were distinctly concave rather than oblong to rectangulate.
1995 P. J. Hayward et al. in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe x. 491/2 Ribs and striae..interact to form a reticulate or decussate pattern of squared or rectangulate blocks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rectangulatev.

Brit. /rɛkˈtaŋɡjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /rɛkˈtæŋɡjəˌleɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rectangulum , -ate suffix3.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin rectangulum rectangle n. + -ate suffix3. Compare earlier rectangulated adj., rectangular adj., and slightly earlier triangulate v.
1. transitive. To place at right angles; to divide into rectangles; to give a rectangular form to; to arrange or set out in a rectangular form.
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1836 J. Phillips Illustr. Geol. Yorks. II. iv. 117 Were the forces applied uniformly to a great area of horizontal rocks, uniformly resisting, axes of displacement rectangulated to one another but of indeterminate direction must happen.
1890 J. S. Jeans Waterways & Water Transport Different Countries i. 2 Then it was that the primeval forest..and the prairie became rectangulated with roadways.
1911 R. Blomfield Hist. French Archit. x. 158 The courtyard was the direct descendant of the enclosed fortress plan of the Middle Ages, the only development being that this plan was in certain cases regularized and rectangulated.
1964 Mid-plan Rev.: Eval. Progress during First Three Years of Second Five-year Plan (Pakistan Planning Comm.) ii. v. 27 The total additional land brought under cultivation during the period was about 284,000 acres besides about 573,000 acres which were rectangulated.
2005 E. D. Demaine et al. in J. Akiyama et al. Discrete & Computational Geom. 77 This subdivision rectangulates K.
2. intransitive. To extend at right angles. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 11 From here radiate, or rather rectangulate, all the new rectilineal thoroughfares.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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