Roundrect

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rectangle with rounded corners.

    "The iPhone is, officially, King of Design: when even Intel is mirroring your new roundrect bezels, you have won that particular game."

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"The iPhone is, officially, King of Design: when even Intel is mirroring your new roundrect bezels, you have won that particular game."

Etymology

Blend of rounded + rectangle. In 1981, a function for quickly creating rounded rectangles was added to the Apple program LisaGraf (later renamed QuickDraw) created by Bill Atkinson at the request of Steve Jobs, with the program referring to this shape as the "RoundRect."

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