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Orthogonal :: Orthogonal (a.) Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another..

Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet..

Birectangular :: Birectangular (a.) Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle..

Plaid :: Plaid (n.) A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland..

Matrix :: Matrix (n.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.

Bay Window :: Bay window () A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window..

Stack :: Stack (a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch..

Potential :: Potential (n.) In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the cente

Winkle-hawk :: Winkle-hawk (n.) A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.

Rectangularity :: Rectangularity (n.) The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled..

Trirectangular :: Trirectangular (a.) Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.

Billiards :: Billiards (n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished..

Triglyph :: Triglyph (n.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage..

Palla :: Palla (n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches..

Oblong :: Oblong (a.) Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular..

Brick :: Brick (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp..

Virginal :: Virginal (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals..

Rectangled :: Rectangled (a.) Rectangular.

Prism :: Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc..

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