Square- or rectangular-shaped outdoor rooms benefit mightily from hefty pots and planters placed at each corner.

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Rather than being perfectly square or rectangular, the keys have one rounded, curved side, giving them the look of a tooth or roof shingle.

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Many batteries are made in a kind of "Swiss roll" geometry, in which the layers are rolled up into a cylindrical or round-edged rectangular shape.

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Their form and decoration varied widely, from rectangular boxes depicting pastoral landscapes to figural boxes of, say, fruits or animals.

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The T28 is equipped with a tiny (to today's standards) rectangular 1.4-inch monochrome screen (101 x 33 pixels or three lines of 12 characters) with a blue-ish green backlight.

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Or, dare I say it, whatever glitch it was in the system that allowed Apple to patent a rectangular shape with rounded corners.

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The cartons are rectangular and easy to pack, meaning more wine can fit in one container, be it a truck or a ship, with less wasted space.

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