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Rectangular and Squared

adjective

  • Having four right angles.
    • usage: "a rectangular figure twice as long as it is wide"
  • Having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles.
    • usage: "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
(a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.

verb

  • Make square.
    • usage: "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
  • Raise to the second power.
  • Cause to match, as of ideas or acts.
  • Position so as to be square.
    • usage: "He squared his shoulders"
  • Be compatible with.
    • usage: "one idea squares with another"
  • Pay someone and settle a debt.
    • usage: "I squared with him"
  • Turn the paddle; in canoeing.
  • Turn the oar, while rowing.

adjective

  • Having been made square. .
(imp.&p.p.) of Square.