rectangular

UK/ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjʊlə/US/ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/

adjectiveB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,073 of 15,258mostly written

Rectangular means shaped like an oblong with four right angles. A rectangular room, rectangular tables, roughly rectangular.

Strictly a square is rectangular too, since a square is a rectangle with equal sides, though nobody says so in ordinary speech. It is the shape almost every made object defaults to, because it packs and cuts without waste.

Definitions of rectangular

1adjectiverectangularShaped like an oblong with four right angles.B2
“We ate at a long rectangular table that seated the whole family.”

rectangular is a shape.

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rectangular in the wild

A rectangular cuboid (sometimes also called a "cuboid") has all right angles and equal opposite rectangular faces.
Cuboid
When all of the rectangular cuboid's edges are equal in length, it results in a cube, with six square faces and adjacent faces meeting at right angles.
Cuboid
In probability theory and statistics, the continuous uniform distributions or rectangular distributions are a family of symmetric probability distributions.
Continuous uniform distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the beta rectangular distribution is a probability distribution that is a finite mixture distribution of the beta distribution and the continuous uniform distribution.
Beta rectangular distribution

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