isothetic
A curve is isothetic if it consists entirely of lines parallel to one of the coordinate axes in a given rectilinear coordinate system
. A polygon
or polyhedron is isothetic if all of its edges are parallel to one of the coordinate axes.
An example of an isothetic polygon is the rectangle for some , , , . Examples of non-isothetic shapes are the tilted square and the bipyramid .
(This entry is here because I couldn’t find a definition of isothetic on the web. If you know anything interesting about isothetic shapes, please adopt this entry!)