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 following instructive experiment depends on the rectilineal propagation of light.

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

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)

There is much less friction than arises from the sum of all the bearings required to convert the rectilineal force of the common engine to circular motion.

From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II by Dundonald, Thomas Barnes Cochrane, Earl of

To describe a rectilineal figure which shall be similar to one given rectilinear figure, and equal to another given rectilineal figure.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various