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  • rect-
    rect-
    variant of recti- before a vowel.
  • rect.
    rect.
    abbreviation
    (in prescriptions) rectified.
  • rect
    rect
    abbreviation
    receipt

rect-

1 American  
  1. variant of recti- before a vowel.

    rectangle.


rect. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) rectified.


rect. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. receipt.

  2. rectangle.

  3. rectangular.

  4. rector.

  5. rectory.


rect British  

abbreviation

  1. receipt

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of rect.

From the Latin word rēctificātus

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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 McClintock, Francis Leopold

To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Whitehead, Alfred North

Any two event-particles on a rect define the set of event-particles which lie between them on that rect.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Thus the matrix of r intersects the moment M in a rect ρ.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

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 Whitehead, Alfred North

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