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rectangulometer
"An instrument used to determine whether an angle is a right angle", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Charles Holtzapffel (1806–1847), mechanical engineer and technical writer. From post-classical Latin
rectangulum
rectangle +
-ometer
.