rectangular

English

rectangular clock face

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjʊlə/
• Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar

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Adjective

rectangular (not generally comparable, comparative more rectangular, superlative most rectangular)

1. Having a shape like a rectangle.
2. Having axes that meet each other with right angles.

Derived terms

• birectangular
• equirectangular
• hyperrectangular
• nonrectangular
• rectangular coordinates
• rectangular hyperbola
• rectangularity
• rectangularization
• rectangularly
• rectangularness
• rectangular number
• rectangularwise
• subrectangular
• sub-rectangular
• trirectangular

 

Translations

having a shape like a rectangle

• Arabic: مُسْتَطِيل (mustaṭīl)
• Bengali: আয়তক্ষেত্রাকৃতি (aẏotokkhetrakriti)
• Bulgarian: правоъ́гълен (pravoǎ́gǎlen)
• Catalan: rectangular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 矩形的 (zh) (jǔxíng de)

• Czech: obdélníkový (cs), rektangulární (cs)
• Danish: rektangulær
• Dutch: rechthoekig (nl), rechthoekige (nl)
• Esperanto: ortangula
• Finnish: suorakulmainen (fi), suorakaiteen muotoinen
• French: rectangulaire (fr)
• Georgian: მართკუთხა (martḳutxa)
• German: rechteckig (de), rechtwinklig (de), rechtwinkelig (de)
• Greek: ορθογώνιος (el) (orthogónios)

  Ancient: ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios)

• Hebrew: מלבני (he) m (malbení)
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• Italian: rettangolare (it)
• Japanese: 直角の (ja) (ちょっかくの, chokkaku no)
• Latin: rectiangulus, rectangulus
• Macedonian: правоаголен (pravoagolen)
• Maori: porowhā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rektangulær (no)

  Nynorsk: rektangulær

• Piedmontese: retangolar
• Polish: prostokątny (pl)
• Portuguese: retangular (pt)
• Russian: прямоуго́льный (ru) (prjamougólʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: u obliku pravougaonika, pravougaoni
• Spanish: rectangular (es)
• Swedish: rektangulär (sv)
• Tagalog: paritadlungin
• Telugu: చతురస్త్ర (caturastra), చదరం (cadaraṁ)
• Welsh: cyfongl

having axes that meet each other with right angles

• Finnish: suorakulmainen (fi)
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Catalan

Etymology

rectangle +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rək.təŋ.ɡuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [rek.taŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]

Adjective

rectangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural rectangulars)

1. rectangular

Further reading

• “rectangular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

rectángulo +‎ -ar.

Adjective

rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares)

1. rectangular

Related terms

• rectángulo

Further reading

• “rectangular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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Portuguese

Adjective

rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares, not comparable)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French rectangulaire.

Adjective

rectangular m or n (feminine singular rectangulară, masculine plural rectangulari, feminine and neuter plural rectangulare)

1. rectangular

Declension

Declension of rectangular

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	rectangular		rectangulară	rectangulari	rectangulare
	definite	rectangularul		rectangulara	rectangularii	rectangularele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	rectangular		rectangulare	rectangulari	rectangulare
	definite	rectangularului		rectangularei	rectangularilor	rectangularelor

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Spanish

Etymology

rectángulo +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reɡtanɡuˈlaɾ/ [reɣ̞.t̪ãŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
• Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar

Adjective

rectangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural rectangulares)

1. rectangular

Related terms

• rectángulo

Further reading

• “rectangular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014