Usually means: Moving in or forming straight lines.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word rectilinear:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. rectilinear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rectilinear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rectilinear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rectilinear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rectilinear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rectilinear, rectilinear: Wordnik
  7. rectilinear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rectilinear: Wiktionary
  9. rectilinear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rectilinear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rectilinear: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rectilinear: Dictionary.com
  13. rectilinear: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Rectilinear (disambiguation), Rectilinear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Rectilinear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rectilinear: Rhymezone
  17. Rectilinear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rectilinear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. rectilinear: Free Dictionary
  20. rectilinear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. rectilinear: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rectilinear: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. rectilinear: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rectilinear: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. rectilinear: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rectilinear: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See rectilinearly as well.)

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adjective:  In a straight line.
adjective:  (geometry, art) Formed from straight lines.

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