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

If the outline be rectilineal, simplicity of law produces symmetry, and variety of result can be attained only at the expense of simplicity in the law.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various

The E. border is nearly rectilineal, while on the W., the wall forms a bold curve.

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

From a given circle to cut off a segment containing an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

In the second place it was too rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry