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

Suppose the field to be divided, the objects to be classified, are three-sided rectilineal plane figures, each group must be based upon some modification of the three sides.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

In the circumference of the circle, then, no two of the points equidistant from the centre can touch each other; and the circumference must be made up of infinite all rectilineal sides joining these points.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various

I began to see ways by which I might make the garden a little less rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

Its shape on the W. is clearly polygonal, the wall consisting of three rectilineal sections, and on the E. it is made up of two straight sections connected by a curved section.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn