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 outline of Cassini is clearly polygonal, being made up of several rectilineal sections.

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

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

In the circumference of the circle, then, no two of the points equidistant from the centre can touch each other; and the circumference must be made up of infinite all rectilineal sides joining these points.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various

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