rectilinear
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Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Scholl explains that At Attin features a rectilinear grid plan city center, wrapped by suburbia in a more circular pattern that “is recognizable from space.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024
In this crawl, called rectilinear locomotion, “the skeleton is basically sliding inside of the skin,” says Jayne.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024
Inside Notre-Dame it is still a futuristic film décor - a towering mass of rectilinear metal scaffolding set against the curves and arches of the ancient Gothic stone.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2023
The pyramid and the rest of the city are oriented on a rectilinear grid 15° 25” from true north, a direction that may have aligned with the cave mouth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing rectilinear
Geometry - Introductory
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Geometry (Base List)
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Measurement and Data
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