- a variation of rectilinear.
rectilineal
Example Sentences
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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
As to lines, the rectilineal are in themselves the lifeless, the determined 'ab extra', but still in immediate union with the cycloidal, which are expressive of function.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
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
I began to see ways by which I might make the garden a little less rectilineal.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
