groundward
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The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2012
From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sharp drive of wind bent the tops of the young wayside firs groundward.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
The denizens of the woods had taken shelter under the trees; in some of these the branches, snow-laden, had dropped groundward, forming quite a series of tents in the forest.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
A veil of fine, driving flakes scurried groundward with each gust of wind from the lake and half hid the passenger-laden suburban trains, and the ramshackle dairy buildings across the tracks.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Seely, Herman Gastrell
