Rēct’ang-gle1, n.
(rĕkt’ang-gl), n. [Fr. rectangle, Sp. rectangulo, It. ret-tangolo, Lat. rectus, right, and angulus, angle.] A four-sided figure, having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
☞ As the area of a rectangle is expressed by the product of its two dimensions, the term rectangle is sometimes used for product, as the rectangle of a and b, that is, ab.
