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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Rectilinear, Rectilineousadjective

    Consisting of right lines.

    Etymology: rectus and linea, Lat.

    There are only three rectilineous and ordinate figures, which can serve to this purpose; and inordinate or unlike ones must have been not only less elegant, but unequal. John Ray.

    This image was oblong and not oval, but terminated with two rectilinear and parallel sides and two semicircular ends. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

    The rays of light, whether they be very small bodies projected, or only motion and force propagated, are moved in right lines; and whenever a ray of light is by any obstacle turned out of its rectilinear way, it will never return into the same rectilinear way, unless perhaps by very great accident. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rectilineousadjective

    rectilinear

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rectilineous in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rectilineous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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