rectilineˈarity
[f. prec. + -ity.]
The quality of being rectilinear.
| 1813–21 Bentham Ontology Wks. 1843 VIII. 197 Qualities that are qualities of the above-mentioned fictitious entities of the first remove. For example, of motion, rectilinearity, curvilinearity. 1863 Lyell Antiq. Man xiii. (ed. 3) 233 The uniformity, parallelism,..and..rectilinearity of the so-called glacial furrows. |
| fig. 1840 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 67 The rectilinearity of the law. |