rectangle

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

rectangle (plural rectangles)

2. (geometry) Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

   Hypernym: polygon

   Hyponym: square

   Coordinate terms: circle, ellipse, triangle, trapezoid, rhombus

3. (nontechnical) Such a quadrilateral that is oblong (longer than it is wide): one that is not regular (equilateral), that is, any except a square.

   Hypernyms: shape, polygon

   Coordinate terms: square, circle, oval, ellipse, triangle, trapezoid, rhombus, lozenge, diamond

4. (archaic) A right angle.
   • 1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 12.— Of the Doctrine of our Priests, page 46:

     For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his Rectangles?

5. (archaic) The product of two quantities.
   • 1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Product”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 886, column 1:

     In Lines it [the product] is always (and ſometimes in Numbers) call'd the Rectangle between the two Lines, multiply'd by one another.

Hyponyms

• (quadrilateral): oblong (not in technical use)
• (quadrilateral): square

Derived terms

• golden rectangle
• hyperrectangle
• love rectangle
• open rectangle
• rectagraph
• rectangled
• rectanglelike
• roundrect
• subrectangle

Related terms

• rect angle
• rectangular
• rectification
• rectify
• rectilinear

Translations

quadrilateral

Albanian: drejtkëndësh (sq) m Arabic: مُسْتَطِيل m (mustaṭīl) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ m (tāwrīḵā) Armenian: ուղղանկյուն (hy) (uġġankyun) Asturian: rectángulu m Aymara: wiskhalla Azerbaijani: düzbucaq Basque: laukizuzen Belarusian: прамавуго́льнік n or m (pramavuhólʹnik), прастаку́тнік n (prastakútnik) (Taraškievica) Bengali: আয়তক্ষেত্র (bn) (aẏotokkhetro) Breton: skouergorneg Bulgarian: правоъгъ́лник m (pravoǎgǎ́lnik) Burmese: လေးထောင့် (my) (le:htaung.), စတုဂံ (my) (ca.tu.gam) Catalan: rectangle (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 長方形 / 长方形 (zh) (chángfāngxíng), 矩形 (zh) (jǔxíng) Czech: obdélník (cs) m Danish: rektangel (da) n Dutch: rechthoek (nl) m Egyptian: (jfd) Esperanto: ortangulo, rektangulo Estonian: ristkülik (et) Faroese: rætthyrningur m Finnish: suorakulmio (fi) French: rectangle (fr) m Galician: rectángulo (gl) m Georgian: მართკუთხედი (martḳutxedi) German: Rechteck (de) n, Karree (de) n, Orthogon Greek: ορθογώνιο παραλληλόγραμμο (el) (orthogónio parallilógrammo) Ancient Greek: ὀρθογώνιον n (orthogṓnion) Haitian Creole: rektang Hebrew: מַלְבֵּן (he) m (malbén) Hindi: आयत (hi) m (āyat) Hungarian: téglalap (hu) Icelandic: rétthyrningur m Ido: rektangulo (io) Indonesian: persegi panjang Ingrian: oikianurkkain Interlingua: rectangulo m Irish: dronuilleog f Italian: rettangolo (it) m Japanese: 長方形 (ja) (ちょうほうけい, chōhōkei), 矩形 (ja) (くけい, kukei) Kankanaey: kaman-ruwangan Kannada: ಆಯತ (kn) (āyata) Kashubian: prostonórt m Kazakh: тікбұрыш (tıkbūryş) Khmer: ចតុកោណកែង (km) (caʼtokaon kaeng) Korean: 직사각형(直四角形) (ko) (jiksagakhyeong), 구형(矩形) (ko) (guhyeong), 장방형(長方形) (jangbanghyeong) Kumyk: тюз мююшлюк (tüz müyuşlük) Kyrgyz: тик бурчтук (tik burctuk), тикбурч (tikburc) Lao: ຮູບສີ່ແຈສາກ (lo) (hūp sī chǣ sāk) Latin: rēctangulum n, rēctagōnum n Latvian: taisnstūris (lv) m Limburgish: rechhook (li) Lithuanian: stačiakampis m Lombard: retàngol Low German: East Frisian: rechthauk m Macedonian: правоа́голник m (pravoágolnik) Malay: segiempat tepat Maori: tapawhā, porowhā, tapawhā hāngai Mongolian: Cyrillic: тэгш өнцөгт (tegš öncögt) Navajo: nineezgo dikʼą́, dikʼą́ągo heeneez, dį́įʼgo yistłʼah North Frisian: Sylt: Rochthuk m Norwegian: Bokmål: rektangel (no) n Nynorsk: rektangel n Occitan: rectangle (oc) m Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) takamby irundyjoja Pashto: مستطيل m (mostatil) Persian: مستطیل (fa) (mostatil), راست‌گوشه (râsat-guše) Piedmontese: retàngol m Polish: prostokąt (pl) m Portuguese: rectângulo (pt) m (Portugal), retângulo (pt) (Brazil) Punjabi: ਆਇਤ (pa) f (āita) Quechua: wask'a Romanian: dreptunghi (ro) n Russian: прямоуго́льник (ru) (prjamougólʹnik) Sami: Northern Sami: rektáŋgel Sardinian: retàngulu m Scottish Gaelic: dronn-uileannag f, ceart-cheàrnach m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: правоугаоник m, пра̏вокӯтнӣк m Roman: pravougaonik m, prȁvokūtnīk (sh) m Sicilian: rittànculu Silesian: prostokůnt m Slovak: obdĺžnik (sk) m Slovene: pravokotnik m Somali: laydi Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: pšawokut m Upper Sorbian: praworóžk m Southern Altai: тӱс толукту булуҥ (tüs toluktu buluŋ) Spanish: rectángulo (es) m Sundanese: pasagi burung Swahili: mstatili (sw) Swedish: rektangel (sv) c Tagalog: rektanggulo, parihaba (tl) Tajik: росткунҷа (rostkunja), мустатил (mustatil) (literary), ростгуша (rostguša) Tamil: செவ்வகம் (ta) (cevvakam) Tatar: турыпочмак (turıpoçmaq) Telugu: దీర్ఘ చతురస్రం (te) (dīrgha caturasraṁ) Thai: สี่เหลี่ยมผืนผ้า (th) (sìi-lìiam-pʉ̌ʉn-pâa) Turkish: dikdörtgen (tr), mustatil (tr) (obsolete) Turkmen: gönüburçluk Ukrainian: прямоку́тник m (prjamokútnyk) Urdu: مُسْتَطِیل (mustatīl) Uyghur: تىك تۆتبۇلۇڭ (tik tötbulung) Uzbek: toʻgʻriburchak, mustatil (uz) (literary, dated) Vietnamese: hình chữ nhật (vi) Waray-Waray: rectanggulo Welsh: cyfongl f West Flemish: rechtoek West Frisian: rjochthoek c Yiddish: גראָדעק (grodek)

Adjective

rectangle (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Right-angled.

   a rectangle triangle

References

• “rectangle, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “rectangle, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• “rectangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rectangle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “rectangle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəkˈtaŋ.ɡlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [rekˈtaŋ.ɡle]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

Related terms

• rectangular

Further reading

• “rectangle”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.tɑ̃ɡl/

• Audio:

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Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

Derived terms

• rectangulaire

Adjective

rectangle (plural rectangles)

1. (geometry) right-angled (of a geometric figure)

   Antonyms: obtusangle, acutangle

   un triangle rectangle ― a right-angled triangle

   un parallélépipède rectangle ― a rectangular cuboid

Further reading

• “rectangle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• glacèrent