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5 words match “RECTANGLE”

RECTANGLE n. 2 definitions
A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
RECTANGLED a.
Rectangular. Hutton.
BILLET n.
A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
PARALLELOGRAM n.
sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant…
QUINCUNX n.
An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.