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

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 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 Cousin, Victor

In the second place it was too rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

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