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

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

The ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John

This formation exhibits a marked departure from the circular type, being bounded by rectilineal sides.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

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 Heath, Thomas Little