radial
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The Warwick team, working with astronomers from the University of Colorado Boulder in the US, was interested in the four nearby systems because of a "substantial radial wobble".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But the promised buildings have never materialised, and Crown Road, a four-kilometre circular road with 12 radial routes is still under construction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The playa is arranged as a semicircle, and radial streets are named as if their position were a clock face.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
In addition to a rainbow of radial lasers, a brilliant column of light shoots into the sky, à la the Sacramento Kings’ beam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Adam’s irises were light blue with dark radial lines leading into the vortices of his pupils.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Instead only the most distal ones are homologous to digit bones; the proximal radials are homologous to the wrist bones and the long bones of the palm.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2020
The book focusses on six designs: arcs or waves, meanders, spirals, radials or explosions, cells and networks, and fractals.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
The federal government poured money into the brand new interstate system, encouraging radials, arteries and thoroughfares through dense urban neighbourhoods.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2018
In the deep violet light at 70 feet, the sight is shocking: steel-belted radials covering an area the size of 27 football fields.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2016
These radials may be homologous with the terminals already mentioned, but this is neither necessary nor certain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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