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the four-cornered overlord ruling your phone, your books, your bricks, and your bed.
means A four-sided shape with four right angles, where opposite sides are equal in length.
from From Latin 'rectus' (right, straight) plus 'angulus' (angle, corner) — literally a 'right-angled' figure. The 'rectus' root is a sprawling family: it also gives us 'correct,' 'direct,' 'erect,' and 'rectify,' all sharing that ancestral sense of straightness and setting-things-right. 'Angulus,' the corner, is possibly a cousin of 'ankle' — both bend at a joint. The English word arrived in the late 16th century, assembled tidily from these Latin parts to name the shape that keeps everything square.
- royal ratio
- The golden rectangle obsessed artists for centuries
- square cousin
- Every square is a rectangle, never reversed
- screen empire
- Nearly every screen you own is one
- flag favorite
- Most national flags chose this shape
- diagonal trick
- Its two diagonals are always equal length
great rectangle of egypt — the rectangular grid of agricultural fields in the nile delta, visible from space, spanning thousands of years
rectangle lake ontario — the approximately rectangular shape of lake ontario, one of the five great lakes between usa and canada
rectangle of death — the rectangular danger zone in mma octagon, 5x20 feet, where fighters avoid cage pressure in ufc