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

The rectilineal propagation of light may be illustrated by permitting the solar light to enter, through a small aperture in a window-shutter, a dark room in which a little smoke has been diffused.

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

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The E. border is nearly rectilineal, while on the W., the wall forms a bold curve.

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

On a given straight line to describe a segment of a circle containing an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle; Prop.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various