- a variation of rectilinear.
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
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
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
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
One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal co”rdinate axes.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
