rectangular shape

collocation in English

meaningsofrectangularandshape

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rectangular
adjective
uk
/rekˈtæŋ.ɡjə.lər/us
/rekˈtæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/
shaped like ...
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shape
noun
uk
/ʃeɪp/us
/ʃeɪp/
the particular physical form or appearance ...
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(Definition ofrectangularandshapefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrectangular shape

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The resulting input which is given to the system approaches therectangularshape, but does not significantly excite the resonances.
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He made major modifications to the compost basket, such as changing to a much longerrectangularshape.
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Only when the extraction voltage was coincident with the peak in the plasma ion current profile, therectangularshapeof the ion extraction was achieved.
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This is the case of obstacles ofrectangularshapewhen the obstacle's length is much greater than its width.
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And within this, which defines a longrectangularshape, within this fence is another fence which houses the excavation.
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This came out from the fact that all realized walking robots had feet of arectangularshape.
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Morerectangularshapeof a resource histogram indicates less hiring and releasing of resources.
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The cells of the embryo have thin walls and arectangularshapein both the transverse and the longitudinal planes.
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This feat was inscribed on a bronze plaque, yet in the samerectangularshapeas the neighboring rock inscriptions with writing underneath the image of a dog.
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The vision appears to him as ' 'out in public,' ' as it were, as ' 'vivid' ' and easy to judge as therectangularshapeof this page.
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It is a well-defined county of arectangularshape, with the county city in the middle.
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For accounting reasons it is necessary to issue licences to licensing authorities in book form with counterfoils, and for this arectangularshapeis essential.
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They are trees which have been converted in a primary sense, roughly cut in section torectangularshape, shipped in that shape, rough sawn, to this country.
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While the town is a longrectangularshape, property boundaries and vertical air photography shows that it consists of two distinct parts or towns.
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The burial chamber is arectangularshapeand divided into upper and lower pillared sections, with the lower part holding the sarcophagus of the king.
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In the late 1970s, new rear lights, gotrectangularshape(the former were smaller and had a round shape).
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The basis of its capitulum contains arectangularshape, rather than a hexagonal shape.
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The atoll has a roughlyrectangularshapeand is 8.1 km in length with a maximum width of 4.2 km.
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He rebuilt the apse into arectangularshapeand added a large stained-glass quadrifore window.
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