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Definition of rectilinear in English: rectilinear(also rectilineal) adjective ˌrɛktɪˈlɪnɪəˌrɛktəˈlɪniər 1Contained by, consisting of, or moving in a straight line or lines. Example sentencesExamples - The open atrium acoustically separates this curved form from the main rectilinear block that houses the National Library collections in a flexible framework of levels.
- He has designed gardens in keeping with minimal art - and also with the simple, rectilinear logic of early-twentieth-century industrial architecture.
- The third law says that the motion of any moving body tends to be rectilinear, even if in fact it is circular or curved through collision.
- 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.
- Straight lines meet curved; rectilinear bases rise to occasional arches and on up to golden domes.
- Inside the layout was rectilinear, with small single-room square houses lining the ramparts and a series of straight streets.
- The mid-portion of the pressure-volume curve appears to be virtually rectilinear.
- ‘People are surprised that I can do so detailed a rectilinear structure,’ he says of the building's off-white limestone wrapper.
- A number of paintings from 1963 utilize single ellipses against rectilinear backgrounds of contrasting hues.
- Slate floor tiles and boxlike built-in cherry wall cabinets - some of which are open for display - establish the room's rectilinear frame.
- Hints of rectilinear buildings raise the possibility that the village may have switched to more Roman architectural styles in the latter part of the Roman period.
- Ostensibly modernist abstractions, they consist of optically charged rectilinear patterns of internally opposed two-color and three-color systems.
- The clean lines of the rectilinear podium maintain a relationship with the low-rise, urban fabric of the city.
- Flattened columns measuring about 2 feet in height, they feature irregular curves wedded to a rectilinear vertical edge - a motif echoed in some of the paintings.
- The former is seen in the rectilinear and symmetrical designs, including some carvings and moldings that are formed with characteristic Regency strapwork, grotesques, and classical motifs from antiquity.
- Her first painting in an abstract style, A Quiet Place, suggests an ambiguously defined courtyard flanked by rectilinear columns and passageways.
- ‘The interconnecting and in part rectilinear character of the network of white lines does not suggest origin by chemical inhibition,’ Wells suggested.
- Such circles and lines, plus arabesques and rectilinear passages, occur in most of the work that follows.
- They encouraged architectural readings through the intersection of diagonal and rectilinear bars and planes of color.
- I worked out the equivalent points on a rectilinear grid using trigonometry.
- 1.1Photography Relating to a straight line or lines.
Example sentencesExamples - However, most people who are accustomed to looking at photographs have gotten over the naive demand that everything in photographs be rendered rectilinear.
- 1.2Photography (of a wide-angle lens) corrected as much as possible, so that straight lines in the subject appear straight in the image.
Example sentencesExamples - The lenses were reported as the largest ever ground for photographic work-the telescopic rectilinear lens being 11 feet equivalent focus.
- A software algorithm corrects the side view for magnification distortion and converts the image to rectilinear coordinates.
Origin Mid 17th century: from late Latin rectilineus (from Latin rectus 'straight' + linea 'line') + -ar1. Rhymes Abyssinia, Bithynia, curvilinear, Gdynia, gloxinia, interlinear, Lavinia, linear, Sardinia, triclinia, Virginia, zinnia Definition of rectilinear in US English: rectilinear(also rectilineal) adjectiveˌrektəˈlinēərˌrɛktəˈlɪniər 1Contained by, consisting of, or moving in a straight line or lines. Example sentencesExamples - The open atrium acoustically separates this curved form from the main rectilinear block that houses the National Library collections in a flexible framework of levels.
- Such circles and lines, plus arabesques and rectilinear passages, occur in most of the work that follows.
- The third law says that the motion of any moving body tends to be rectilinear, even if in fact it is circular or curved through collision.
- I worked out the equivalent points on a rectilinear grid using trigonometry.
- Straight lines meet curved; rectilinear bases rise to occasional arches and on up to golden domes.
- They encouraged architectural readings through the intersection of diagonal and rectilinear bars and planes of color.
- A number of paintings from 1963 utilize single ellipses against rectilinear backgrounds of contrasting hues.
- The mid-portion of the pressure-volume curve appears to be virtually rectilinear.
- Inside the layout was rectilinear, with small single-room square houses lining the ramparts and a series of straight streets.
- ‘The interconnecting and in part rectilinear character of the network of white lines does not suggest origin by chemical inhibition,’ Wells suggested.
- ‘People are surprised that I can do so detailed a rectilinear structure,’ he says of the building's off-white limestone wrapper.
- The clean lines of the rectilinear podium maintain a relationship with the low-rise, urban fabric of the city.
- He has designed gardens in keeping with minimal art - and also with the simple, rectilinear logic of early-twentieth-century industrial architecture.
- Flattened columns measuring about 2 feet in height, they feature irregular curves wedded to a rectilinear vertical edge - a motif echoed in some of the paintings.
- 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.
- Hints of rectilinear buildings raise the possibility that the village may have switched to more Roman architectural styles in the latter part of the Roman period.
- Slate floor tiles and boxlike built-in cherry wall cabinets - some of which are open for display - establish the room's rectilinear frame.
- Ostensibly modernist abstractions, they consist of optically charged rectilinear patterns of internally opposed two-color and three-color systems.
- The former is seen in the rectilinear and symmetrical designs, including some carvings and moldings that are formed with characteristic Regency strapwork, grotesques, and classical motifs from antiquity.
- Her first painting in an abstract style, A Quiet Place, suggests an ambiguously defined courtyard flanked by rectilinear columns and passageways.
- 1.1Photography Relating to a straight line or lines.
Example sentencesExamples - However, most people who are accustomed to looking at photographs have gotten over the naive demand that everything in photographs be rendered rectilinear.
- 1.2Photography (of a wide-angle lens) corrected as much as possible, so that straight lines in the subject appear straight in the image.
Example sentencesExamples - The lenses were reported as the largest ever ground for photographic work-the telescopic rectilinear lens being 11 feet equivalent focus.
- A software algorithm corrects the side view for magnification distortion and converts the image to rectilinear coordinates.
Origin Mid 17th century: from late Latin rectilineus (from Latin rectus ‘straight’ + linea ‘line’) + -ar. |