Mathematical Object

Rectangle

Geometry

In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon, or quadrilateral, with four right angles; equivalently it can be defined as an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means all its angles are equal, or as a parallelogram containing a right angle. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a square, and the term oblong is sometimes used for a rectangle that is not a square. The name comes from the Latin rectangulus, a combination of rectus, meaning right or proper, and angulus, meaning angle. A related figure, the crossed rectangle, is a self-intersecting quadrilateral formed from two opposite sides of a rectangle together with its two diagonals, and rectangles more generally appear throughout tiling problems, such as tiling the plane by rectangles or tiling a rectangle by other polygons.

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1. Rectangle (Wikipedia)
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    In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles.
  • In Branch: Geometry, Lead sentence
    In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles.
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