rectilinear
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- adjective
- /ˌrɛktɪˈlɪniər/
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rectilíneo
- The architect designed a rectilinear building with sharp angles and straight lines.
- rectilinear correlations
- rectilinear forms
So it's both rectilinear and rectangular.
- So it's both rectilinear and rectangular.
- In the one center of the sunken, holy rectilinear area, a cast iron cage awaits cantillation and prayer.
Examples
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The building's finely detailed, bold rectilinear form is set back from the street amidst a carpet of natural ground cover.
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The city's layout is rectilinear, with streets intersecting at right angles.
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With that exception, the whole country looks like this rectilinear grid.
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So it's both rectilinear and rectangular.
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The latter combines rectilinear geometry with a coordinated system of numbered streets, lots, and houses.
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And what they showed is the PPA responds more to the rectilinear than the curvilinear shapes.
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Expansion of irrigated rice production in the Sacramento Valley has created a flat, rectilinear landscape engineered for water delivery.
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Buried objects disturb the earth's magnetic field, and in an olive grove their instruments detected a rectilinear outline beneath the ground.
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But it's the long walls of low reliefs that most keep pilgrims from feeling imprisoned by the massive, rectilinear architecture at Angkor Wat.
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More importantly, Jefferson and his friend Hugh Williamson also drafted the Land Ordinance of 1784, which established a rectilinear survey demarcating the land prior to sale.
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Synonyms
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In a direct line without turning
Made of straight lines or moving in straight lines
Arranged in a straight line
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A way to predict one thing from another using a straight-line equation like y = ax + b
How Straight
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rectilinear comes from Latin parts rectus 'straight' and linea 'line', and you can see the same idea in rectangle. So rectilinear means made of straight lines rather than curves.