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

It is the simplest of all curves, and the standard or measure of curvature,—vastly more simple in its laws than any rectilineal figure, and therefore more beautiful than any simple figure of that kind.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various

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 hate white rectilineal lines on grass almost more than I hate underdone mutton or "The Lost Chord".

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

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