What is "rectangular"

Usage examples of "rectangular".

To an observer on the more commodious east bank, it appears to be a rectangular bartizan jutting from the rock, a bartizan four stories high at the side he sees, whose flat, merloned roof terminates against the cliff.

Reaching into his pocket, Bowser removed a thin, rectangular object and presented it to David with a flourish.

The design, inclosed by a circle, represents a cross such as would be formed by two rectangular tablets or slips, slit longitudinally and interlaced at right-angles to each other.

This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.

Each tiny Sen-Sen-sized microchip was housed in a rectangular casing about an inch long.

But from experience, he had learned that where the strips of bamboo which overlay the straw matting formed a rectangular panel, there was a door, and by the light of the electric lamp hung in the center of the corridor, he counted six of these.

The Black Tiger turned toward a desk by one of the wide, paneless windows these Cretid buildings seemed to be full of, and picked up a rectangular black object with a thin wire stretching out of one end.

A rectangular parallelepiped appeared on the wall, pictured in grey metal against a dark background, lying on its side, two small wheels appearing beneath it near either end, a rectangular door drawn in its centre.

It exited the crevice with a rectangular parallelepiped of stone suspended beneath it, which it stood upright in the sand six feet from the front cliff face.

Three black gate cars sat there exactly as he had imagined them: each a rectangular parallelepiped about 60 feet long, poised on gleaming rails extending forward to a large blue gate on the opposite wall.

Logan Square, a rectangular green parklet with a great tall stone column towering over the half dozen or so streets which intersected there.

With a whirring of strained servomotors, domed, rectangular, and humaniform heads swiveled, audio sensors perked up, and countless photoreceptors came into sharp focus.

The Porticus Margaritaria, a gigantic rectangular shopping arcade just uphill from it and oriented on the Forum axis, actually abutted onto its rear end, and sliced off a corner of it.

The radiometer itself was a small aluminum rectangular cake tin, its bottom covered with black polka dots, the infrared sensors.

The storehouses were rectangular, with steep roofs that had a wide overhang on all sides, and screened ventilators at the ends.