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

Any other triangle or rectilineal 132 figure can be worked out in the same way, which is not only the simplest method, but it carries its mathematical proof with it.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)

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

On the N. there is a large formation enclosed by rectilineal ridges.

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

Galileo, although willing to conceive circular motion as perpetual32, and even self-existent, was unable thus to conceive rectilineal motion.

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford