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

In the second place it was too rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

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

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

Suppose the field to be divided, the objects to be classified, are three-sided rectilineal plane figures, each group must be based upon some modification of the three sides.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William