rectilinear

How To Use rectilinear In A Sentence

• A long corridor acts as a horizontal spine connecting many small alcoves and hallways while an exposed concrete volume punctures this rectilinear framework as an enigmatic vertical intervention.
• About that time Herter Brothers developed its unique version of the Anglo-Japanese style in furniture, rectilinear in outline and constructed of ebonized wood.
• As dissolution proceeds, a honeycomb texture may result, particularly where a mineral has near rectilinear cleavages.
• In any case, boldness of design and rectilinearity are characteristics of the quilts; and for some quilters, corduroy called forth their best efforts.
• In 1765, Euler decomposed the motion of a solid into a rectilinear motion and a rotational motion.
• The present sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. Les Miserables
• It would be a waste of time, in the present state of science, to controvert this hypothesis, as it is now admitted that even if the rush of a diluvial current, invented for the occasion and wholly without analogy in the known course of nature, be granted, it would be inadequate to explain the uniformity, parallelism, persistency, and rectilinearity of the so-called glacial furrows. The Antiquity of Man
• And given the space's want of rectilinearity, it was smart to introduce complementary non-primary angles in the bar fittings.
• Such circles and lines, plus arabesques and rectilinear passages, occur in most of the work that follows.
• Another wall was adorned with brightly colored curvilinear shapes made of cutout vinyl, placed on rectilinear pieces of transparent Mylar that were carefully distributed in an uneven pattern.