A four-sided plane figure with four right angles.
[French, from Medieval Latin rēctangulum, a right triangle, from Late Latin rēctiangulum : Latin rēctus, right + Latin angulus, angle.]
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A four-sided plane figure with four right angles.
[French, from Medieval Latin rēctangulum, a right triangle, from Late Latin rēctiangulum : Latin rēctus, right + Latin angulus, angle.]
A pattern formed on a chart where the price of a security is trading within a bounded range in which the levels of resistance and support are parallel to each other, resembling the shape of a rectangle. This pattern signals that the price movement, which has stalled during the pattern, will trend in the direction of the price breakout of the bounded range.
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The bounded range, or rectangle, is a period of consolidation in which market participants are generally indecisive. The formation of this pattern will see the price of the security test the levels of support and resistance several times before a breakout. Once the security breaks out of the range, in either direction, it is considered to be trending in the direction of the breakout.
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A rectangle is a quadrilateral.

In geometry, a rectangle is defined as a quadrilateral where all four of its angles are right angles.
From this definition, it follows that a rectangle has two pairs of parallel sides; that is, a rectangle is a parallelogram. A square is a special kind of rectangle where all four sides have equal length; that is, a square is both a rectangle and a rhombus. A rectangle that is not a square is colloquially known as an oblong.
Normally, of the two opposite pairs of sides in a rectangle, the length of the longer side is called the length of the rectangle, and the length of the shorter side is called the width. (Exception: For rectangular steel sheets, the rolling direction is called length, even if it is the shorter side.)
The area of a rectangle is the product of its length and its width; in symbols, A = lw. For example, the area of a rectangle with a length of 5 and a width of 4 would be 20, because 5×4 = 20.
In a rectangle the diagonals cross each others at their respective midpoints, under the same argument as for parallelograms. And unlike general parallelograms the two diagonals of a rectangle have the same length, the length of the diagonal can be found using the Pythagorean theorem.
In calculus, the Riemann integral can be thought of as a limit of sums of the areas of arbitrarily thin rectangles.
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Français (French)
n. - rectangle
Deutsch (German)
n. - Rechteck
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ορθογώνιο παραλληλόγραμμο
Português (Portuguese)
n. - retângulo (m) (Geom.)
Русский (Russian)
прямоугольник
Español (Spanish)
n. - rectángulo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - rektangel
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
长方形, 矩形
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 長方形, 矩形
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 方形, 矩形, 長方形
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مستطيل
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