rectilinear

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Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

The stable but slightly horizontal rectilinear shape hints at landscape while helping to focus the eye.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

There is, however, one group of burrowing creatures that uses rectilinear locomotion.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024

Inside Notre-Dame it is still a futuristic film décor - a towering mass of rectilinear metal scaffolding set against the curves and arches of the ancient Gothic stone.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2023

And it may be noted that Oresme had grasped the crucial principle, that a combination of circular movements could produce the appearance of rectilinear movement, apparently independently of any Arabic source.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton