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

Before leaving his rectilineal room, he had dressed himself with his valet Neumann's help with all possible care, as his life in the public eye required.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

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

I do not know if this town is really obedient to Heaven, but it is obedient to the laws of rectilineal geometry.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules

If it is desired to make a rectilineal grating, we deposit the phosphate solution on the gelatine in a straight line by means of two parallel glass plates.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane