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

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)

Suppose the field to be divided, the objects to be classified, are three-sided rectilineal plane figures, each group must be based upon some modification of the three sides.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

They are remarkable for their parallelism, regularity, rectilineal direction and evenness of outline, and constitute what is by far the most conspicuous feature in the topography of Loudoun.

From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by Head, James William

FRANKLIN.—A ring-plain, 33 miles in diameter, which displays a considerable departure from the circular type, as the border is in great part made up of rectilineal sections.

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