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
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 James William Head
We have never seen, then, any but imperfect images of equilateral, rectilineal, or isosceles triangles, since they neither exist in nature, nor can be constructed by art.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
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 Thomas Gwyn Elger
Here we are ever brought back to the undulating ground of living science, instead of having to follow the rectilineal way traced out by the dead letter.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
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