rectangularity love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or state of being rectangular or right-angled; rectangularness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The condition of being rectangular
  • noun countable A rectangular form

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property of being shaped like a rectangle

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Examples

  • Personally, I would have trouble living up to its rectangularity and its imperative on clinical order.

    Horizontal Space by Duilio Damilano 2009

  • To clarify my above discussion of rectangularity, it references David Friedman's mention of the Coombs building, which has a non-rectangular plan which David Friedman finds disorienting and I am sure I would too - I was fairly disoriented when I went on a group tour of the Pentagon.

    Economics and Modernity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • But there was one undeniable characteristic about the motel and the surrounding neighborhood that would not go away: The rectangularity of line and the absence of people gave one the sense that he was standing inside a stage set, one that had been created for the professional sojourner.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Like the dream figure, he was a study in contradiction, his shabby elegance not quite real, his rectangularity that of a grandiose poseur sitting in a soup kitchen.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • But there was one undeniable characteristic about the motel and the surrounding neighborhood that would not go away: The rectangularity of line and the absence of people gave one the sense that he was standing inside a stage set, one that had been created for the professional sojourner.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • But there was one undeniable characteristic about the motel and the surrounding neighborhood that would not go away: The rectangularity of line and the absence of people gave one the sense that he was standing inside a stage set, one that had been created for the professional sojourner.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Like the dream figure, he was a study in contradiction, his shabby elegance not quite real, his rectangularity that of a grandiose poseur sitting in a soup kitchen.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Like the dream figure, he was a study in contradiction, his shabby elegance not quite real, his rectangularity that of a grandiose poseur sitting in a soup kitchen.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • There is a striking contrast between the severe rectangularity of the garden's borders and the irregular natural forms of the rocks within them.

    Japanese Aesthetics Parkes, Graham 2005

  • Many of our older cities and villages have partly outgrown the awkward age, become dignified in the shade of spreading trees, and fallen somehow into a kind of unity; a few of them, especially near the Atlantic seaboard, where the stupid rectangularity of the towns farther west was never imposed, are among the loveliest in the world.

    Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

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