Definition of Rectangularity

1. Noun. The property of being shaped like a rectangle.

Exact synonyms: Oblongness
Generic synonyms: Angularity
Specialized synonyms: Orthogonality, Perpendicularity, Squareness
Derivative terms: Oblong, Rectangular

Definition of Rectangularity

1. n. The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right- angled.

Definition of Rectangularity

1. Noun. The condition of being rectangular ¹

2. Noun. A rectangular form ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rectangularity

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectangularity

rectal valves
rectal valvotomy
rectal varicosities
rectal varicosity
rectal vein
rectal venous plexus
rectalgia
rectally
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rectangles
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rectangular amputation
rectangular coordinates
rectangular number
rectangularity (current term)
rectangularly
rectectomy
recti
recti-
rectifiability
rectifiable
rectification
rectifications
rectificator
rectified
rectified optics
rectified spirit
rectified tar oil
rectifier

Literary usage of Rectangularity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Microscopy: A Handbook for Beginners and Students by M. I. Cross, Martin J. Cole (1922)
"rectangularity of the cross-wires in the eyepiece. 3. rectangularity of the vibration planes of the two nicol prisms. 4. Parallelism of the cross-wires to ..."

2. Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, Ed by Charles Piazzi Smyth (1874)
"rectangularity towards vertically, as measured along the top of the wall; or they form the shortest side of a plane triangle, of which the longest side is ..."

3. The Rudiments of Architecture and Building: For the Use of Architects by John Bullock (1855)
"The diminution and entasis, essential to the character of limb-columns, do not, as might be thought, interfere with the severe rectangularity of the style, ..."

4. The Rudiments of Architecture and Building for the Use of Architects by John Bullock (1865)
"The diminution and entasis, essential to the character of limb-columns, do not, as might be thought, interfere with the severe rectangularity of the style, ..."

5. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The rectangularity of the etching pits seems to ... to show why the presence of these amorphous sheaths does not prevent this rectangularity of etching. ..."

6. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The rectangularity of the etching pits seems to me to prove this persisting of the orientation, and it is this persisting that I attempt to explain. ..."

7. The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight by Thomas Urquhart (1834)
"thereof as centre, be described a new circle; for then will the tangents be perspicuous, and so much the more for their rectangularity, the one with the ..."

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