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Rectangle

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Entity-backed identity for the object-kind enum value this mathematical object already carries, resolved to a mathematics concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The object-kind fact itself stays on the object unchanged.

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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.
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