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

On a given straight line to describe a segment of a circle containing an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle; Prop.

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

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

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

They are remarkable for their parallelism, regularity, rectilineal direction and evenness of outline, and constitute what is by far the most conspicuous feature in the topography of Loudoun.

From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by Head, James William