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 "The Processional Instinct," Mr. Pain informs us that he has discovered that our private life is circular, and our public life is rectilineal.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

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

FRANKLIN.—A ring-plain, 33 miles in diameter, which displays a considerable departure from the circular type, as the border is in great part made up of rectilineal sections.

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

Any other triangle or rectilineal 132 figure can be worked out in the same way, which is not only the simplest method, but it carries its mathematical proof with it.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)