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

In the second place it was too rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

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

We have never seen, then, any but imperfect images of equilateral, rectilineal, or isosceles triangles, since they neither exist in nature, nor can be constructed by art.

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

If it is desired to make a rectilineal grating, we deposit the phosphate solution on the gelatine in a straight line by means of two parallel glass plates.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane