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

If the outline be rectilineal, simplicity of law produces symmetry, and variety of result can be attained only at the expense of simplicity in the law.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various

It is the simplest of all curves, and the standard or measure of curvature,—vastly more simple in its laws than any rectilineal figure, and therefore more beautiful than any simple figure of that kind.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various

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

They are remarkable for their parallelism, regularity, rectilineal direction and evenness of outline, and constitute what is by far the most conspicuous feature in the topography of Loudoun.

From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by Head, James William