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

It is the simplest of all curves, and the standard or measure of curvature,—vastly more simple in its laws than any rectilineal figure, and therefore more beautiful than any simple figure of that kind.

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

In the second place it was too rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

Another problem solved by the Pythagoreans is that of drawing a rectilineal figure equal in area to one given rectilineal figure and similar to another.

From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little

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 Elger, Thomas Gwyn