Rectangle
noun
A flat shape with four straight sides where every angle is a right angle (90 degrees), and opposite sides have the same length.
I drew a rectangle on my sketchpad.
Often appears as...
- draw a rectangle
- a rectangle of land
noun
In computing, an area on a screen, separated by borders or margins.
The dialog box opens in a new rectangle on the screen.
Often appears as...
- screen rectangle
- rectangle dialog box
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Technical
noun
In mathematics, any of the six faces of a rectangular parallelepiped.
A rectangle is one of the six faces of a rectangular prism.
Often appears as...
- rectangle face
- rectangular prism
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Technical
noun
A flat shape with four straight sides where every angle is a right angle (90 degrees), and opposite sides have the same length.
I drew a rectangle on my sketchpad.
Often appears as...
- draw a rectangle
- a rectangle of land
noun
In computing, an area on a screen, separated by borders or margins.
The dialog box opens in a new rectangle on the screen.
Often appears as...
- screen rectangle
- rectangle dialog box
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In mathematics, any of the six faces of a rectangular parallelepiped.
A rectangle is one of the six faces of a rectangular prism.
Often appears as...
- rectangle face
- rectangular prism
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Common Geometry Term
Often used in math classes when learning about shapes and properties of angles.
We calculated the area of the rectangle in our geometry homework.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Aid
Helpful to draw rectangles to understand problems involving area and perimeter.
To solve the problem, we drew a rectangle to visualize the garden plot.
Pro Tip 3/3Real-life Objects
Rectangles can describe the shape of everyday items like books, screens, and doors.
My phone's screen is a perfect rectangle.
Pro Tip 1/3Common Geometry Term
Often used in math classes when learning about shapes and properties of angles.
We calculated the area of the rectangle in our geometry homework.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Aid
Helpful to draw rectangles to understand problems involving area and perimeter.
To solve the problem, we drew a rectangle to visualize the garden plot.
Pro Tip 3/3Real-life Objects
Rectangles can describe the shape of everyday items like books, screens, and doors.
My phone's screen is a perfect rectangle.
Pro Tip 1/3Common Geometry Term
Often used in math classes when learning about shapes and properties of angles.
We calculated the area of the rectangle in our geometry homework.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Aid
Helpful to draw rectangles to understand problems involving area and perimeter.
To solve the problem, we drew a rectangle to visualize the garden plot.
Pro Tip 3/3Real-life Objects
Rectangles can describe the shape of everyday items like books, screens, and doors.
My phone's screen is a perfect rectangle.
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A glimpse of the future...
you're doing it in pretty much the same way. You're hunched over these rectangles, fumbling with buttons and menus and more rectangles. And I think this is the wrong way, I think we can start using a much more natural machine. We should use machines that bring our work back into the world. We should use machines that use the principles of neuroscience
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Why the shape of your...
See, this whole problem started when people wanted to watch movies from the theater in the comfort of their own homes. Movie screens are considerably larger than our home television. More important, the screen is completely different rectangle and can't mathematically fit on our TV screens without manipulation.
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Ron Eglash: The fractals...
But he was really cool about it, and he took me up there, and we talked about fractals. And he said, "Oh yeah, yeah! We knew about a rectangle within a rectangle, we know all about that." And it turns out the royal insignia has a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle,
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Helder Guimarães: A...
So you get this kind of big square, okay? Now, I want you to take the bill and fold it like this, lengthwise, so it becomes like a rectangle, and then again -- really fold it, really crease it -- and when you have it, please fold the bill again into a little square like this
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Orangutan understands 72...
and you'll notice that it starts with a rectangle on the outside or the exterior, and all food symbols start with a rectangle. You notice there's a diagonal line going from corner to corner and a dot right in the center. That is the only symbol that will ever look that way.
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How math saved my life PIPE...
how the television worked I said little rectangle pixels they change color and as they change color that changes the picture well right as I said that a kershel came on with a big o and you know how kids sometimes see right to the core of a problem she said
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Chris Milk: How virtual...
And when he stops in front of a house, he stops in front of your house. And this was great, and I saw people having an even deeper emotional reaction to this than the things that I had made in rectangles. And I'm essentially taking a piece of your history
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The Real Amazons PIPE...
you have to have trousers or leggings and so they invented the world's first tailored garments if you think about it the greeks and egyptians they're all wearing big rectangles of cloth pinned together the scythians are wearing tailored
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What streaming means for...
And why do hundreds of millions of people around the world congregate to watch them? I want you all the imagine for second -- imagine you land on an alien planet, and on this planet, there's a giant green rectangle.
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4 Lessons in Creativity...
and that's paying attention to the world around us. So many artists speak about needing to be open, to embrace experience, and that's hard to do when you have a lighted rectangle in your pocket that
Video examples
A glimpse of the future...
you're doing it in pretty much the same way. You're hunched over these rectangles, fumbling with buttons and menus and more rectangles. And I think this is the wrong way, I think we can start using a much more natural machine. We should use machines that bring our work back into the world. We should use machines that use the principles of neuroscience
Video examples
Why the shape of your...
See, this whole problem started when people wanted to watch movies from the theater in the comfort of their own homes. Movie screens are considerably larger than our home television. More important, the screen is completely different rectangle and can't mathematically fit on our TV screens without manipulation.
Video examples
Ron Eglash: The fractals...
But he was really cool about it, and he took me up there, and we talked about fractals. And he said, "Oh yeah, yeah! We knew about a rectangle within a rectangle, we know all about that." And it turns out the royal insignia has a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle,
Video examples
Helder Guimarães: A...
So you get this kind of big square, okay? Now, I want you to take the bill and fold it like this, lengthwise, so it becomes like a rectangle, and then again -- really fold it, really crease it -- and when you have it, please fold the bill again into a little square like this
Video examples
Orangutan understands 72...
and you'll notice that it starts with a rectangle on the outside or the exterior, and all food symbols start with a rectangle. You notice there's a diagonal line going from corner to corner and a dot right in the center. That is the only symbol that will ever look that way.
Video examples
How math saved my life PIPE...
how the television worked I said little rectangle pixels they change color and as they change color that changes the picture well right as I said that a kershel came on with a big o and you know how kids sometimes see right to the core of a problem she said
Video examples
Chris Milk: How virtual...
And when he stops in front of a house, he stops in front of your house. And this was great, and I saw people having an even deeper emotional reaction to this than the things that I had made in rectangles. And I'm essentially taking a piece of your history
Video examples
The Real Amazons PIPE...
you have to have trousers or leggings and so they invented the world's first tailored garments if you think about it the greeks and egyptians they're all wearing big rectangles of cloth pinned together the scythians are wearing tailored
Video examples
What streaming means for...
And why do hundreds of millions of people around the world congregate to watch them? I want you all the imagine for second -- imagine you land on an alien planet, and on this planet, there's a giant green rectangle.
Video examples
4 Lessons in Creativity...
and that's paying attention to the world around us. So many artists speak about needing to be open, to embrace experience, and that's hard to do when you have a lighted rectangle in your pocket that
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John Battelle
American Businessman
Boxes and rectangles on the side or top of a website simply do not deliver against brand advertising goals. Like it or not, boxes and rectangles have for the most part become the province of direct response advertising, or brand advertising that pays, on average, as if it's driven by direct response metrics.
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Tom Wujec
Canadian Author
The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Chris Milk
American Artist
Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.
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David Hockney
English Artist
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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Daniel Farke
German Football Player
You have to bring this ball over this line and into this rectangle. It is not like synchronised swimming, where you are judged by your unbelievably beautiful performance.
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Nathan Sawaya
American Artist
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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John Battelle
American Businessman
Boxes and rectangles on the side or top of a website simply do not deliver against brand advertising goals. Like it or not, boxes and rectangles have for the most part become the province of direct response advertising, or brand advertising that pays, on average, as if it's driven by direct response metrics.
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Tom Wujec
Canadian Author
The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.
Quote examples
Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Chris Milk
American Artist
Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.
Quote examples
David Hockney
English Artist
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
Quote examples
Daniel Farke
German Football Player
You have to bring this ball over this line and into this rectangle. It is not like synchronised swimming, where you are judged by your unbelievably beautiful performance.
Quote examples
Nathan Sawaya
American Artist
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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