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
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
The ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John
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
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
