RECTANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rectangle mean? 

• RECTANGLE (noun)
  The noun RECTANGLE has 1 sense:

1. a parallelogram with four right angles

  Familiarity information: RECTANGLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECTANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A parallelogram with four right angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("rectangle" is a kind of...):

parallelogram (a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rectangle"):

foursquare; square ((geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon)

box (a rectangular drawing)

Derivation:

rectangular (having four right angles)

 Context examples 

A solid or semi-solid in the shape of a square or rectangle.

(Block Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid dosage form usually in the form of a rectangle that is meant to be chewed.

(Chewable Bar Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Solid dosage form, usually in the shape of a square or rectangle.

(Block Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Crossing the porch where we had dined that June night three months before I came to a small rectangle of light which I guessed was the pantry window.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)