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RECTANGLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A parallelogram with four right angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("rectangle" is a kind of...):

parallelogram (a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rectangle"):

foursquare; square ((geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon)

box (a rectangular drawing)

Derivation:

rectangular (having four right angles)

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