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What does rectilinear mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rectilinear? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. In a straight line.
  2. (geometry, art) Formed from straight lines.
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Inside the layout was rectilinear, with small single-room square houses lining the ramparts and a series of straight streets.
They encouraged architectural readings through the intersection of diagonal and rectilinear bars and planes of color.
The clean lines of the rectilinear podium maintain a relationship with the low-rise, urban fabric of the city.
Her first painting in an abstract style, A Quiet Place, suggests an ambiguously defined courtyard flanked by rectilinear columns and passageways.
The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion, and retained in its orbit.
As earthbound primates, humans generally interpret the concept of acceleration within the boundaries of rectilinear translation.

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