rectangular

English

rectangular clock face

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) 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)
• 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)

Catalan

Etymology

From rectangle +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /rək.tən.ɡuˈla/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /rek.tan.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.

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, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Adjective

rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares, not comparable)

1. Superseded spelling of retangular. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed 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

Spanish

Etymology

From rectángulo +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reɡtanɡuˈlaɾ/ [reɣ̞.t̪ãŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: 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