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
The following instructive experiment depends on the rectilineal propagation of light.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
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
I began to see ways by which I might make the garden a little less rectilineal.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
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 Thomas Gwyn Elger
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