List of antonyms from "rectangular" to antonyms from "redistrict"


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Definition of the day : « rectilinear »

  • As in square : adj four-sided
  • As in straight : adj aligned; not curved
Example sentences :
  • By linear, or perhaps, more correctly, rectilinear incision.
  • Extract from : « A Manual of the Operations of Surgery » by Joseph Bell
  • The English letters are much more sober and rectilinear in character.
  • Extract from : « Lessons in the Art of Illuminating » by W. J. Loftie
  • Patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms, with four to five rectilinear parallel chamber-rows.
  • Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) » by Ernst Haeckel
  • Kepler, on the other hand, was no less in error in considering their paths to be rectilinear.
  • Extract from : « Comets and Meteors » by Daniel Kirkwood
  • Quite soon you will begin to find that everything is too rectilinear.
  • Extract from : « Wings and the Child » by E. [Edith] Nesbit
  • And a rectilinear process has no right to get into a circle!
  • Extract from : « Social Value » by B. M. Anderson
  • Rectilinear routes are routes which in a sense lie in rects.
  • Extract from : « The Concept of Nature » by Alfred North Whitehead
  • It may be some other body, moving, but moving in a rectilinear direction.
  • Extract from : « Plato's Doctrine respecting the rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment upon that Doctrine » by George Grote
  • That when moved, its motion is rotatory and not rectilinear, it owes to its own nature.
  • Extract from : « Plato's Doctrine respecting the rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment upon that Doctrine » by George Grote
  • The chief member of the cornice, directly beneath the gutter, by its great projection and rectilinear faces forming the drip.
  • Extract from : « History of Ancient Art » by Franz von Reber