rect-
variant of recti- before a vowel.
rect-
1 American
rect.
2
American
abbreviation
rect.
3
American
abbreviation
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receipt.
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rectangle.
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rectangular.
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rector.
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rectory.
rect
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of rect.
From the Latin word rēctificātus
Example Sentences
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The civil affairs people have stacks of confiscated German chocolate in rect- angular cartons, and Marie-Laure and Madame Ruelle eat too many to count.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Friend Reuben,—I am in rect. of thine of 27th inst., and note contents.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various
R. pulv., full; ditto, spirit. rect., empty; ditto, mur. hydrarg. seven-eighths full; ditto, ol. caryphyll., one-fifth full; ditto, ipec.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is really traversed are other event-particles which at succeeding instants occupy the same points of space α as those occupied by the event-particles of the rect ρ.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
Any rect in M which intersects all these levels in its set of puncts, thereby receives for its puncts an order of position on it.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
Let ρ be any rect in the moment M of α and let λ be a level in M which is perpendicular to ρ.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
Thus ρ is the instantaneous rect in M which occupies at the moment M the straight line r in the space of α.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
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