(n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
(a.) Rectangular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron micrographs of negatively stained hexamers show a characteristic curvilinear, equilateral triangle of 12 nm in diameter (top view) and a rectangle measuring 10 x 12 nm (side view).
(2) Slice in half lengthways and then cut each half into six short rectangles.
(3) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
(4) Asked about Samsung's reaction to the verdict, in which it said it was "unfortunate that patent law allows the patenting of rectangles with rounded corners", Hogan responded that "we didn't look at any singular aspect" of the devices when considering Apple's "trade dress" complaints of physical similarity between the iPhone and iPad and various Samsung devices.
(5) The Hartshill rectangle avoids the problems of overlapping L rods and gives increased stability and correction of rotation.
(6) The Hartshill rectangle, a metal frame fixed to the laminae by sublaminar wires, has been used in 50 cases.
(7) The size sequence of the molar teeth in three genera, including seven species, of the Cercopithecidae was examined on the basis of mesiodistal and buccolingual crown diameters, and rectangle measurements (mesiodistal d. X buccolingual d.).
(8) The ratios between the lengths of the sides of the rectangles were the same in both series, but in one series the size of the rectangles covaried with the ratio between length and width, as in Godkewitsch's 1974 study, and in the other series the rectangles were of equal area.
(9) The approximate mitral orifice was covered by a 44 x 40 mm rectangle and the approximate tricuspid orifice was covered by a 59 x 41 mm rectangle.
(10) Tawane’s family was shown to a rectangle of sand in block E5 of Hagadera.
(11) Roll out the dough into a rectangle, says the recipe.
(12) Three views can be observed and interpreted: (a) a square face which, in situ, is junctionally associated with the transverse tubule or junctional face membrane; (b) a rectangle equivalent to the side view; and (c) a diamond shape equivalent to the side view, of which the base portion appears to be equivalent to the transmembrane segment.
(13) They were faster on an arrow pointing up the higher it was in the rectangle, and they were faster on an arrow pointing down the lower it was in the rectangle.
(14) Many of the nevocytic nevi identified in these rectangles had the clinical features of dysplastic nevi.
(15) Calsequestrin has been precipitated with calcium into five different crystal forms: cruciform twins, flat rectangles, thin needles, bipyramids, rectangular prisms, and a sixth precrystalline form, spheres.
(16) 3 groups of 3 men (high, medium, low perceivers) reported more reversals for trapezoids than rectangles.
(17) In the first 45 cases, a simple, flat, unwelded rectangle was used, and in the last 26 the Hartshill rectangle was employed.
(18) The more troubling issue, though, is that this calculation assumes that as the tall-skinny rectangle gets shorter, it does not get wider.
(19) The present study examined possible hemispheric differences in discriminations of different sizes of geometric shapes (rectangles) and different meanings of words, and determined whether left and right hemisphere derived visual event related potentials (ERPs) were related to performance.
(20) First, we find that the ellipsoid and rectangle shapes fit the data with the same precision as the variance in repeated threshold measurements.
Tetragon
Definition:
(n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.
(n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crystals are tetragonal, with unit cell dimensions a = 48.9 A and c = 82.0 A, space group P 41 21 2 or P 43212.
(2) The morphological unit of the regular array appeared to consist of four spherical subunits, each about 2 nm in diameter, which were arranged in a tetragonal pattern about 4.5 by 7.0 nm in dimension.
(3) Two different tetragonal crystal forms have been characterized, both diffracting to about 6 A using synchrotron radiation.
(4) The outer structured layer was a linear array of particles overlying an inner tetragonal array of larger subunits.
(5) An activity assay of redissolved tetragonal form crystals indicates that the uncleaved, functional serpin has been crystallized.
(6) The A ring of the steroid in the tetragonal crystal was found to be disordered, and exists in both a normal and inverted conformation.
(7) One was in a hexagonal array, and the other was in a tetragonal array.
(8) The crystals are tetragonal rods with unit cell dimensions a = 128.6 A, c = 92.5 A.
(9) A hydrated cobalt ion is found to coordinate to two N7 atoms of adjacent guanines, forcing these two guanines to destack with a large dihedral angle (32 degrees), in the dimer of the tetragonal form.
(10) These tubules are clearly distinguishable by their shape and fine structure from the periodic structure of a P. rhodos cell wall layer, which exhibits a tetragonal pattern, and also from polyheads and polysheaths of defective bacteriophages.
(11) The structure crystallizes in the tetragonal space group P41 with a = 8.225 (5) and c = 28.42 (1) A.
(12) This truncated S-protein was exported via the periplasm to the cell surface, but could not self-assemble into a tetragonal array or be anchored to the cell surface.
(13) Bacillus sphaericus strain P-1 has previously been shown to have a tetragonally arrayed (T layer) protein which forms the outer layer of the cell wall.
(14) Its three-dimensional structure from two different crystal forms (tetragonal and trigonal) has been determined by X-ray diffraction analysis at 1 A resolution.
(15) Both crystal forms are tetragonal, the space group for form I is P4(1)22 (or P4(3)22), and that for form II is P4(2)22.
(16) Density variations suggest an arrangement of subunits, either tetragonal or trigonal, viewed from a variety of angles about the DNA axis.
(17) The binuclear copper site is characterized as two tetragonal Cu(II) atoms bridged by both an endogenous protein ligand and the exogenous ligand (i.e., peroxide), with the lack of an electron paramagnetic resonance signal being the result of antiferromagnetic exchange via the endogenous bridge.
(18) The crystals are tetragonal, show the symmetry of space group P4(1) or its enantiomer, have lattice constants of a = 58.46 (1) and c = 77.02 (3) A, and scatter to at least 2 A resolution.
(19) These elevations were distributed according to a tetragonal pattern with a periodicity of 850 A.
(20) Crystals are tetragonal, with space group P42(1)2, a = b = 171 A, c = 150 A in the absence of ATP; and P422, a = b = 101 A, c = 114.4 A in the presence of ATP.