concentric
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Two bright beams stream outward from the star, lighting up fast-moving polar lobes that punch through older, slower rings of material arranged in concentric arcs.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026
After doffing their shoes, presumably to protect the plush, vibrantly red carpet that covers the theater’s floor, audience members take seats arranged in concentric circles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The frolicking angels populate concentric bands of other clouds that extend upward.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Features such as lineated valley fill and concentric crater fill were also noted in our August Mars Express report on Acheron Fossae.
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025
The sphere was constructed from five concentric rings, each inscribed with zodiac symbols—the bull, the scorpion, et cetera—and seemingly random numbers and letters.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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