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

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

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

One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal co”rdinate axes.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Another problem solved by the Pythagoreans was that of drawing a rectilineal figure which shall be equal in area to one given rectilineal figure and similar to another.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.