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
In "The Processional Instinct," Mr. Pain informs us that he has discovered that our private life is circular, and our public life is rectilineal.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Here we are ever brought back to the undulating ground of living science, instead of having to follow the rectilineal way traced out by the dead letter.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
Galileo, although willing to conceive circular motion as perpetual32, and even self-existent, was unable thus to conceive rectilineal motion.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
From a given circle to cut off a segment containing an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
