See Also: rectangular(dictionary)
rectangular(dictionary)
rectangular amputation(medicine)

rectangular (iou)



rectangular adjective. E17.
[from ANGULAR after French rectangulaire.]
Shaped like a rectangle; having four straight sides and four right angles; (of a solid body) having the sides, base, or section in the form of a rectangle. E17.
Placed or lying at right angles. M17.
A. S. Eddington The laws of mechanics..are usually enunciated with respect to 'unaccelerated rectangular axes'.
Having parts, lines, etc., at right angles to each other; characterized or distinguished by some arrangement of this kind. E18.
rectangular coordinate Math. each of a set of coordinates measured along axes at right angles to one another (usu. in pl.). rectangular hyperbola Math.: with its asymptotes at right angles to one another.
rectangu'larity noun the quality or state of being rectangular or having right angles; fig. stiffness: E18.
rectangularly adverb in a rectangular manner or direction M17.