What is another word for rectangle?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈɛktaŋɡə͡l] (IPA)

A rectangle is a four-sided figure with four right angles. It is often described as having two pairs of parallel sides and opposite sides equal in length. However, there are several synonyms for the word "rectangle" that can also be used in certain contexts. For instance, a "quadrilateral" is a four-sided polygon, of which a rectangle is a specific example. A "parallelogram" is another type of quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel, and a "rhombus" has opposite sides of equal length, but its angles are not all right angles. Lastly, a "square" is a special type of rectangle where all sides have equal length and all angles are right angles.

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What are the opposite words for rectangle?

The word rectangle is a geometric shape defined as a four-sided figure with four right angles. Antonyms for rectangle could be a circle, oval, or any other curvilinear shape. The opposite of a rectangle could also be an irregular shape or a figure with a varying number of sides. Other antonyms for the word rectangle could be a triangle, square, or rhombus, which are all different types of polygons. In contrast to a rectangle, these shapes do not have four right angles and may have different sides of varying lengths. The antonym for the word rectangle depends on the specific shape and properties one is comparing it with.

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Usage examples for Rectangle

Passing casually along the main street and glancing into an open doorway one sometimes sees the passage falling downwards like an open shaft, the lower end a rectangle of blue dancing water!
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
He saw his father's figure pass across the dark rectangle of a window, saw the flash of lightning that suddenly printed his grim silhouette against the glass.
"Doom of the House of Duryea"
Earl Peirce
Anne's knees were none too steady, nor was her breath quite even as the door swung outward and Boone stood against its rectangle of light peering out with eyes unaccommodated to the dark.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck

Famous quotes with Rectangle

  • I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
    David Hockney
  • The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, . I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • I could give here several other ways of tracing and conceiving a series of curved lines, each curve more complex than any preceding one, but I think the best way to group together all such curves and them classify them in order, is by recognizing the fact that all points of those curves which we may call "geometric," that is, those which admit of precise and exact measurement, must bear a definite relation to all points of a straight line, and that this relation must be expressed by a single equation. If this equation contains no term of higher degree than the rectangle of two unknown quantities, or the square of one, the curve belongs to the first and simplest class, which contains only the circle, the parabola, the hyperbola, and the ellipse; but when the equation contains one or more terms of the third or fourth degree in one or both of the two unknown quantities (for it requires two unknown quantities to express the relation between two points) the curve belongs to the second class; and if the equation contains a term of the fifth or sixth degree in either or both of the unknown quantities the curve belongs to the third class, and so on indefinitely.
    René Descartes
  • The discovery of Hippocrates amounted to the discovery of the fact that from the relation (1)it follows thatand if , [then , and]The equations (1) are equivalent [by reducing to common denominators or cross multiplication] to the three equations (2)[or equivalently...and the solutions of Menaechmus described by Eutocius amount to the determination of a point as the intersection of the curves represented in a rectangular system of Cartesian coordinates by any two of the equations (2). Let AO, BO be straight lines placed so as to form a right angle at O, and of length respectively. Produce BO to and AO to . The solution now consists in drawing a parabola, with vertex O and axis O, such that its parameter is equal to BO or , and a hyperbola with O, O as asymptotes such that the rectangle under the distances of any point on the curve from O, O respectively is equal to the rectangle under AO, BO i.e. to . If P be the point of intersection of the parabola and hyperbola, and PN, PM be drawn perpendicular to O, O, i.e. if PN, PM be denoted by , the coordinates of the point P, we shall havewhenceIn the solution of Menaechmus we are to draw the parabola described in the first solution and also the parabola whose vertex is O, axis O and parameter equal to . The point P where the two parabolas intersect is given bywhence, as before,
    Thomas Little Heath
  • “Entropy is a bitch,” I said. “Now, now,” said Aenea from where she was leaning on the terrace wall. “Entropy can be our friend.” “When?” I said. She turned around so that she was leaning back on her elbows. The building behind her was a dark rectangle, serving to highlight the glow of her sunburned skin. “It wears down empires,” she said. “And does in despotisms.”
    Dan Simmons

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