disklike

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Some placentas have evolved to be disklike, some are leaf-shaped, some ring-shaped, heart-shaped; some are ridged, branched, labyrinthine, or weblike.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2024

What has surprised astronomer Dan Coe of the Space Telescope Science Institute are the number of nicely shaped, disklike galaxies.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Galaxy surveys will help astronomers understand the early history of these agglomerations: When they started to form stars and how quickly they organized into the disklike spirals such as the Milky Way.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 11, 2022

The robot’s disklike body does not resemble that of a gall midge larva, but it jumps like one.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Eventually, when the region got small enough, it would be spinning fast enough to balance the attraction of gravity, and in this way disklike rotating galaxies were born.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking