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

Its shape on the W. is clearly polygonal, the wall consisting of three rectilineal sections, and on the E. it is made up of two straight sections connected by a curved section.

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

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)

On the N. there is a large formation enclosed by rectilineal ridges.

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

If it is desired to make a rectilineal grating, we deposit the phosphate solution on the gelatine in a straight line by means of two parallel glass plates.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane