rectilinear.

Consisting of straight lines or arranged along them.

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• rectilinear layout

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A rectilinear layout divided the settlement.

The garden’s rectilinear paths met at right angles.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a spatial or institutional classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.