Rectangular and Triangular

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Rectangular adjective - Having four right angles.

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Triangular and rectangular are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Triangular" instead an adjective "Rectangular".

Nearby Word: rectangle

Triangular adjective - Having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle.

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Rectangular and triangular are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rectangular" instead an adjective "Triangular".

Nearby Word: triangle

Designed in the waning years of the Weimar Republic by one Eberhard Köbel (aka tusk) on the basis of Scandinavian and Mongol tents, they can basically all be constructed from simple triangular or rectangular pieces of black cloth.

Source: Boring But Practical / Real Life
Another had fun with this trope, when Garfield demonstrated two smiles; one with rectangular teeth, and one with triangular, serrated teeth.

Source: Technically a Smile
The same principle is used to make a five-sided die — a triangular prism shaped to have a 2/5 chance of landing on one of its two triangular "heads or tails" faces and a 3/5 chance of landing on one of its three rectangular "edge" faces, giving each a 1/5 chance.

Source: Heads, Tails, Edge

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