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
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 G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey
There is much less friction than arises from the sum of all the bearings required to convert the rectilineal force of the common engine to circular motion.
From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II by Thomas Barnes Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
In fact, I am not sure of having ever seen an equilateral or rectilineal triangle.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
Rectilineal figures which are similar to the same rectilineal figure are also similar to each other, is an immediate consequence of the definition of similar figures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
