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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having four right angles;
- Example: "a rectangular figure twice as long as it is wide"

2. having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles;
- Example: "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"
- Example: "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
[syn: orthogonal, rectangular]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rectangular \Rec*tan"gu*lar\ (r?k*t?n"g?*l?r), a. [CF. F. rectangulaire.] Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r?k*t?n"g?*l?r*l?), adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rectangular adj 1: having four right angles; "a rectangular figure twice as long as it is wide" 2: having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system" [syn: orthogonal, rectangular]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "rectangular": cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, diced, elliptical, elongated, foursquare, normal, oblong, oblongated, oblongitudinal, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, orthometric, perpendicular, quadrangular, quadrate, quadriform, quadrilateral, rhombic, rhomboid, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, square, tetragonal, tetrahedral, trapezohedral, trapezoid