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

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

We have never seen, then, any but imperfect images of equilateral, rectilineal, or isosceles triangles, since they neither exist in nature, nor can be constructed by art.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

Suppose the field to be divided, the objects to be classified, are three-sided rectilineal plane figures, each group must be based upon some modification of the three sides.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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 Pain, Barry