rectilinear
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“The idea behind Storybook is to have something fanciful and whimsical, which involves movement rather than rectilinear rooms,” Libow said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
In this crawl, called rectilinear locomotion, “the skeleton is basically sliding inside of the skin,” says Jayne.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
Inside Notre-Dame it is still a futuristic film décor - a towering mass of rectilinear metal scaffolding set against the curves and arches of the ancient Gothic stone.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
And it may be noted that Oresme had grasped the crucial principle, that a combination of circular movements could produce the appearance of rectilinear movement, apparently independently of any Arabic source.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing rectilinear
Geometry - Introductory
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