Crossword clues for rectangle
rectangle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rectangle \Rec"tan`gle\ (r?k"t??`g'l), n. [F., fr. L. rectus right + angulus angle. See Right, and Angle.] (Geom.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
Note: As the area of a rectangle is expressed by the product of its two dimensions, the term rectangle is sometimes used for product; as, the rectangle of a and b, that is, ab.
Rectangle \Rec"tan`gle\, a. Rectangular. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context geometry English) A quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
WordNet
n. a parallelogram with four right angles
Wikipedia
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°). It can also be defined as a parallelogram containing a right angle. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a square. The term oblong is occasionally used to refer to a non- square rectangle. A rectangle with vertices ABCD would be denoted as .
The word rectangle comes from the Latin rectangulus, which is a combination of rectus (right) and angulus ( angle).
A crossed rectangle is a crossed (self-intersecting) quadrilateral which consists of two opposite sides of a rectangle along with the two diagonals. It is a special case of an antiparallelogram, and its angles are not right angles. Other geometries, such as spherical, elliptic, and hyperbolic, have so-called rectangles with opposite sides equal in length and equal angles that are not right angles.
Rectangles are involved in many tiling problems, such as tiling the plane by rectangles or tiling a rectangle by polygons.
Rectangle is a French independent record label established in Paris by Quentin Rollet and Noël Akchoté in 1994. It started specializing in vinyl]] releases, and moved to CD at the end of the 90's. After a long break it relaunched on MP3 format in 2011.
The label covers a vast range of styles such as jazz, free jazz, improvisation,, chanson, electronica, post-rock, and spoken word.
Among the artists published are Derek Bailey, David Grubbs, Fred Frith, Eugene Chadbourne, Taku Sugimoto, Noël Akchoté; turntablists eRikm, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault; saxophonists Lol Coxhill, Daunik Lazro, Quentin Rollet, the organ player Charlie O., the performer Jean-Louis Costes, singers such as Red, Philippe Katerine, Sasha Andres, Phil Minton, Fred Poulet, Justus Köhncke; the filmmakers John B. Root, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, the bassist Joëlle Léandre, as well as the sound and sampling artists Xavier Garcia, Andrew Sharpley, SebastiAn, the actresses Irène Jacob, Anna Karina, or visual artists such as Pakito Bolino, Hendrik Hegray, Albert Oehlen and Stephen Prina.
Usage examples of "rectangle".
Some of the bacteria were marked with a felt pen circles, and inside those one could indeed see some rectangles and geometrically perfect spheres that were interconnected by some strings and pipes.
The refrigerator threw out a rectangle of welcome light as Brushy Jim opened it.
A dim gray hint of morning in the rectangle of my window cannot pale the hypnogogic phantoms that dance in the dark corners of my room, mocking me for the stupid account I have written.
After a slight hesitation, the Normans came forward, led by Malet and Warenne, and each bent to take a few crumbs of earth and cast them into the black rectangles at their feet.
Even the wall behind us was mirrored, the door set flush in it as a hairline rectangle and barely visible, spring-latched to open at the slightest touch from either side.
Six multiphase antennae were unfolding from their sheaths around the middle of the cargo section, flat ash-gray rectangles measuring twenty meters down their long edge.
The solid rectangle of cloth covered her face from cheek to chin, falling below the collar of her overgown at its longest point.
As he gripped the sides of his bunk he saw Quinton peering down at him, with another figure, Sub-Lieutenant Southby, hovering in the rectangle of light from the passageway.
While they had idled back and forth in a narrow rectangle of open sea during the day, Ainslie had spoken with Quinton alone.
The patchwork of rectangles running the length of the corridor made the blanked-out feeling worse, there was no knowing what long-gone messages had once adorned the ratty cork board.
Drawing and redrawing the circles, triangles, rhomboids, pentagrams, rectangles, sine curves and twisted ovals of infinity, they smoothed them away once again, and began again.
The Dauntlesses nosed over, the rush of air increased and the air-speed indicators moved up as they slanted in toward the push-over point The pilots, leaning forward, concentrating on formation and the narrow yellow rectangle below, felt their planes shake and heard the windbroken hammering of the 30s as the gunners opened up.
A padded framework stood in the middle and provided a ladder-like affair leading from one end of the cylinder to the other, where a second blue rectangle appeared.
Astoria stood to one side as the blue colour spread swiftly over the gate rectangle.
For the paper patterns from which she snipped out regular rectangles and hexagons of cloth, the thrifty housewife often used up old love letters.