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
Rectilineal figures which are similar to the same rectilineal figure are also similar to each other, is an immediate consequence of the definition of similar figures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
The outline of Cassini is clearly polygonal, being made up of several rectilineal sections.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
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 Thomas Gwyn Elger
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