rectilinear
adjective
forming a straight line.
rectilineal
-
a variation of
rectilinear.
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
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 William Minto
On a given straight line to describe a segment of a circle containing an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle; Prop.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
I began to see ways by which I might make the garden a little less rectilineal.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
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
