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RECTANGULARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rectangularity mean? 

RECTANGULARITY (noun)
  The noun RECTANGULARITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being shaped like a rectangleplay

  Familiarity information: RECTANGULARITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RECTANGULARITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being shaped like a rectangle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

oblongness; rectangularity

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

angularity (the property possessed by a shape that has angles)

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

orthogonality (the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles)

perpendicularity (the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon))

squareness (the property of being shaped like a square)

Derivation:

rectangular (having four right angles)


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