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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rectilinear /ˌrɛktɪˈlɪnɪə/ (also rectilineal /-nɪəl/)

▶adjective

1 contained by, consisting of, or moving in a straight line or lines.

2 Photography (of a wide-angle lens) corrected so that straight lines in the subject appear straight in the image.

– derivatives
rectilinearity noun,
rectilinearly adverb.

– origin C17: from late L. rectilineus (from L. rectus ‘straight’ + linea ‘line’) + -ar1.

'rectilinear' also found in these Oxford entries:

curvilinear - exterior angle - interior angle - parallelogram - prism - side

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