rectangle
noun
a parallelogram having four right angles.
rectangles
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pluralof rectangle.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Furner points out that updating paper tags is tedious work, and he’d rather employees spend their afternoons helping customers than tending to a small forest of adhesive rectangles.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
It is drawing up plans for data centers that look more like Silicon Valley tech campuses or art museums, rather than windowless rectangles that neighbors often grouse about resembling prisons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Those red rectangles that you step off and get on for people in wheelchairs, those are probably our No. 1 priority, making sure they’re accessible.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
Nearby, irregular, rusty red rectangles stamped from an unidentified frame are laid end-to-end on a scroll of white paper that runs across a low, horizontal pedestal before bending up to climb a wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
They then folded the banana leaves into rectangles, tied them with cotton twine, and dropped the pasteles into a huge pot of boiling water.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
