rectangle
noun
rect·an·gle
ˈrek-ˌtaŋ-gəl 
: a parallelogram all of whose angles are right angles
especially
: one with adjacent sides of unequal length
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Instagram is testing a potentially major change to profile pages: making the squares in your profile grid vertical rectangles.
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Jay Peters, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2024
Looking at that rectangle reminds me that my son lay there for four and a half hours.
—Lezley McSpadden-Head, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2024
Evoking a similar sense of uneasy contrast between antiquity and modernity is his 2012 work God in Color, a massive canvas embroidered with forty-two different-colored rectangles, each containing the word God in block caps.
—News Desk, Artforum, 24 July 2024
The device goes with a wide rectangle for the overall shape, which puts an inch-wide solid bar down the left, rather than position that block to the bottom for the thinner/taller layout seen on the reMarkable 2 tablet.
—New Atlas, 12 July 2024
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Jay Peters, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2024
Looking at that rectangle reminds me that my son lay there for four and a half hours.
—Lezley McSpadden-Head, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2024
Evoking a similar sense of uneasy contrast between antiquity and modernity is his 2012 work God in Color, a massive canvas embroidered with forty-two different-colored rectangles, each containing the word God in block caps.
—News Desk, Artforum, 24 July 2024
The device goes with a wide rectangle for the overall shape, which puts an inch-wide solid bar down the left, rather than position that block to the bottom for the thinner/taller layout seen on the reMarkable 2 tablet.
—New Atlas, 12 July 2024
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“Rectangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rectangle. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.
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rectangle
noun
rect·an·gle
ˈrek-ˌtaŋ-gəl
: a four-sided polygon that has four right angles and each pair of opposite sides parallel and of the same length
Etymology
from Latin rectangulus "having a right angle," from earlier Latin rectus "right" and angulus "angle"
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