rectilineal
Example Sentences
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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
Before leaving his rectilineal room, he had dressed himself with his valet Neumann's help with all possible care, as his life in the public eye required.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
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
In the second place it was too rectilineal.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal co”rdinate axes.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
