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 ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light.

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

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

We have never seen, then, any but imperfect images of equilateral, rectilineal, or isosceles triangles, since they neither exist in nature, nor can be constructed by art.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

I began to see ways by which I might make the garden a little less rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry