rectanglenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈrek.tæŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈrek.tæŋ.ɡəl/C1 a flat shape with four 90° angles and four sides, with opposite sides of equal length
Examples
- The area of a rectangle is its height times its width.
- The rectangle is 5 cm long and 1.9 cm wide.
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Geometrical shapes
- -cornered
- -dimensional
- arch
- circular
- cuboid
- cylinder
- cylindrical
- dome
- hexagon
- incongruent
- isometric
- lozenge
- octagon
- ovoid
- parallelogram
- polygon
- quadrilateral
- rhombus
- spherical
- triangle
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