disk-shaped
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As this material spirals inward under immense gravity, it forms a rotating, disk-shaped structure before falling into the black hole.
From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025
It's implanted within a small disk-shaped cutout in the skull using a precision surgical robot.
From Salon • May 31, 2023
By shining twin laser beams piped into a tiny disk-shaped crystal cavity this new class of matter was created unexpectedly.
From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2023
Based on the creature’s flattened, disk-shaped vertebrae, he erroneously concluded that ichthyosaurs were a link between lizards and salamanders.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2022
In recent years, infrared observations have revealed a number of likely preplanetary disk-shaped clouds of gas and dust around some of the nearby stars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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