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
I hate white rectilineal lines on grass almost more than I hate underdone mutton or "The Lost Chord".
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
The rectilineal propagation of light may be illustrated by permitting the solar light to enter, through a small aperture in a window-shutter, a dark room in which a little smoke has been diffused.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
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 Thomas Little Heath
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
