rectilineal

Example Sentences

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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

In fact, I am not sure of having ever seen an equilateral or rectilineal triangle.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

In the second place it was too rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

Another problem solved by the Pythagoreans is that of drawing a rectilineal figure equal in area to one given rectilineal figure and similar to another.

From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little