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

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

Any other triangle or rectilineal 132 figure can be worked out in the same way, which is not only the simplest method, but it carries its mathematical proof with it.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)

Here we are ever brought back to the undulating ground of living science, instead of having to follow the rectilineal way traced out by the dead letter.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

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