Meaning

4 senses
  1. Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

    a parallelogram with four right angles

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

    Rechteck, Karree, Orthogon

    прямоуго́льникprjamougólʹnik

    прямоку́тникprjamokútnyk

  3. (archaic)A right angle.

  4. (archaic)The product of two quantities.

Examples

21 sentences
  1. The rectangle and the rhombus are parallelograms.

    Прямокутник і ромб - це паралелограми. — rmdas

    ruПрямоугольник и ромб - параллелограммы. — marafon

    deRechteck und Rhombus sind Parallelogramme. — brauchinet

  2. The opposite sides of a rectangle are parallel.

    Протилежні сторони прямокутника паралельні. — deniko

    ruПротивоположные стороны прямоугольника параллельны. — odexed

  3. A rectangle has four right angles.

  4. Roll the pastry into a rectangle.

    deRollen Sie den Teig zu einem Rechteck aus. — MUIRIEL

  5. Roll the dough into a rectangle.

    deRollen Sie den Teig zu einem Rechteck aus. — MUIRIEL

Translations

9 languages
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Origin

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulu

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

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