Rectangular Definition and 477 Threads

In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containing a right angle. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a square. The term oblong is occasionally used to refer to a non-square rectangle. A rectangle with vertices ABCD would be denoted as ABCD.
The word rectangle comes from the Latin rectangulus, which is a combination of rectus (as an adjective, right, proper) and angulus (angle).
A crossed rectangle is a crossed (self-intersecting) quadrilateral which consists of two opposite sides of a rectangle along with the two diagonals (therefore only two sides are parallel). It is a special case of an antiparallelogram, and its angles are not right angles and not all equal, though opposite angles are equal. Other geometries, such as spherical, elliptic, and hyperbolic, have so-called rectangles with opposite sides equal in length and equal angles that are not right angles.
Rectangles are involved in many tiling problems, such as tiling the plane by rectangles or tiling a rectangle by polygons.

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  1. S

    I Green's function for 2-D Laplacian within square/rectangular boundary

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  2. keyzan

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  3. Salah

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  4. M

    A Rectangular higher order edge element (finite element method)

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  5. C

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  6. FEAnalyst

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  7. N

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  8. guyvsdcsniper

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  9. guyvsdcsniper

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  10. guyvsdcsniper

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  11. D

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  12. karush

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  13. Eclair_de_XII

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  14. N

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  15. ?

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  16. chwala

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  17. H

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  18. Nusselt

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  19. L

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  20. D

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  21. PainterGuy

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  22. yam1244

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  23. B

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  24. S

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  25. ContagiousKnowledge

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  26. D

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  28. P

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  30. Fleuryette

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  32. M

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  33. K

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  34. E

    MHB Convert polar equation r= 1/1+sin(theta) to rectangular equation

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  35. E

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  36. T

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  37. Arslan Siddique

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  38. E

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  39. S

    B Seat arrangements around a rectangular table

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  40. R

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  41. M

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  42. K

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  43. topsquark

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  44. Ekaekto

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  45. Poetria

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  46. S

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  47. T

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  48. B

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  49. C

    MHB Maximizing area of rectangular portion of athletic field

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  50. K

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