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

Running down the trunk in the glaring spiral of a fresh scar two hand-breadths wide went the swath along which the bolt had plunged groundward.

From The Roof Tree by Conrey, Lee F.

Smoke was pouring out of the chimney of a cabin and falling groundward, as it does in the Arctic during very cold weather.

From The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North by Wolfe, George Ellis

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