- a variation of rectilinear.
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
The rectilineal propagation of light may be illustrated by permitting the solar light to enter, through a small aperture in a window-shutter, a dark room in which a little smoke has been diffused.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
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 Barry Pain
Here we are ever brought back to the undulating ground of living science, instead of having to follow the rectilineal way traced out by the dead letter.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
In the second place it was too rectilineal.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
