Adjective : a rectangular pyramid. From Dictionary.com.
Personally, I would have trouble living up to its rectangularity and its imperative on clinical order. From Wordnik.com. [Horizontal Space by Duilio Damilano] Reference
There is a striking contrast between the severe rectangularity of the garden's borders and the irregular natural forms of the rocks within them. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Aesthetics] Reference
To clarify my above discussion of rectangularity, it references David Friedman's mention of the Coombs building, which has a non-rectangular plan which David Friedman finds disorienting and I am sure I would too - I was fairly disoriented when I went on a group tour of the Pentagon. From Wordnik.com. [Economics and Modernity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Optical digital input (optical rectangularity) x2 system, analog input. From Wordnik.com. [New Products from Geek Stuff 4 U .com] Reference
The town has been laid out with great rectangularity; the river divides it unequally. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Hunter] Reference
The stranger was a very tall man in dark clothes, who gave an instant impression of long rectangularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Witness] Reference
Also rectangularity is in fact often not perceived when it can be proved to have been there for perception. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
He was a rectangular person whom nothing could budge, and his very rectangularity bespoke his stubborn rectitude. From Wordnik.com. [By Advice of Counsel] Reference
With a foot-rule you proceed to make measurements to show the rectangularity of the room in which you are standing. From Wordnik.com. [Four-Dimensional Vistas] Reference
But the low angle at which the strata lie, and the rectangularity maintained in relation to their line of bed by the fissures which traverse them, give to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
Again a right-angle is a perceived object which can be situated in many events; but, though rectangularity is posited by sense-awareness, the majority of geometrical relations are not so posited. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Last Day against its monotonous rectangularity and the babel-like ambition of its Public Building, -- that wherever its influence extends, there will be found comfortable lodgings and the luxury of an undeniably excellent cuisine. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The Persian designer, indeed, appears to be so impressed with this feeling, that he uses a succession of borders around the central field of his carpet or rug, still further emphasizing the rectangularity; while he avoids the too rigid effect of. From Wordnik.com. [Line and Form (1900)] Reference
The straight lines of its streets and architecture, the rectangularity of its laws and social customs, the undeviating pavements, the hard, severe, depressing, uncompromising rules of all its ways -- even of its recreation and sports -- coldly exhibit a sneering defiance of the curved line of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
There is this to be said about Philadelphia, -- and it will go far in pleading for it in the Last Day against its monotonous rectangularity and the babel-like ambition of its Public Building, -- that wherever its influence extends, there will be found comfortable lodgings and the luxury of an undeniably excellent cuisine. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
As a first and obvious application of this mode of geographic study of cities appears the criticism, and; when possible, the amendment of the city's plan, the monotonous rectangularity of the American city, and the petty irregularity more common in our own, being alike uneconomic and inartistic because ungeographic, irrational because irregional. From Wordnik.com. [Civics: as Applied Sociology] Reference
She asserted that it is a matter of universal similarity; of flimsiness of construction, so that the towns resemble frontier camps; of neglect of natural advantages, so that the hills are covered with brush, the lakes shut off by railroads, and the creeks lined with dumping - grounds; of depressing sobriety of color; rectangularity of buildings; and excessive breadth and straightness of the gashed streets, so that there is no escape from gales and from sight of the grim sweep of land, nor any windings to coax the loiterer along, while the breadth which would be majestic in an avenue of palaces makes the low shabby shops creeping down the typical Main Street the more mean by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
She asserted that it is a matter of universal similarity; of flimsiness of construction, so that the towns resemble frontier camps; of neglect of natural advantages, so that the hills are covered with brush, the lakes shut off by railroads, and the creeks lined with dumping-grounds; of depressing sobriety of color; rectangularity of buildings; and excessive breadth and straightness of the gashed streets, so that there is no escape from gales and from sight of the grim sweep of land, nor any windings to coax the loiterer along, while the breadth which would be majestic in an avenue of palaces makes the low shabby shops creeping down the typical Main Street the more mean by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
A community where every one's generation is known to the remotest degrees of cousinship, they could not trace his sweetness to his mother, for neither Anna Bellingham nor any of her family, though they were so many blocks of Wenham ice for purity and rectangularity, had ever had any such savour; and, in fact, it was to his father, whose habit of talk wronged it in himself, that they had to turn for this quality of the son's. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference
It shares the tablet aesthetic rectangularity!. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
It reasoned respecting creation, as if it would be true philosophy to account for the origin and existence of some great city, such as the city of Washington in the United States, built, as we know, for purely political purposes, by showing that, -- as it was remarkable for its order, for the rectilinear directness of its streets, and the rectangularity of its squares, -- it must have been erected simply to be a perfect embodiment of regularity; and to urge further that, save in their character as component parts of a perfect whole, the House of. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
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