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rectangular

[rek-tang-gyuh-ler] / rɛkˈtæŋ gyə lər /




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The shelters - rectangular red-brick buildings with a solid concrete roof and no windows - could accommodate up to 100 people.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

EV batteries come in different forms—cylindrical, pouch and prismatic—but grid-scale batteries tend to just be prismatic, a rectangular shape that can be stacked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The town also has around a dozen emergency shelters, concrete rectangular boxes measuring three by six metres, close to certain public places.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

In the newest version of the detector, the metasurface that absorbs light was redesigned into a circular shape rather than a rectangular one.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

At the front, nestled along one of the sides, I feel something hard and rectangular beneath a patch of fabric.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse




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