rectilineal

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His city was laid out and built by Italian and French architects, a city too mannered and rectilineal for Russia, a city that announced to Europe that Russia had finally emerged into resplendent modernity.

From Newsweek

I hate white rectilineal lines on grass almost more than I hate underdone mutton or "The Lost Chord".

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

On a given straight line to describe a segment of a circle containing an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle; Prop.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

The outline of Cassini is clearly polygonal, being made up of several rectilineal sections.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

I do not know if this town is really obedient to Heaven, but it is obedient to the laws of rectilineal geometry.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules