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radial

adjective as in branching

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These variations can imitate the subtle radial velocity signals astronomers look for, sometimes making it difficult to determine whether a planet is truly present.

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Across America, ophthalmologists rediscovered an obscure and risky procedure called radial keratotomy, and there was a boom in surgery to correct small impairments of vision.

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The playa is arranged as a semicircle, and radial streets are named as if their position were a clock face.

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In addition to a rainbow of radial lasers, a brilliant column of light shoots into the sky, à la the Sacramento Kings’ beam.

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One of the four sub-Earth exoplanets discovered is the least massive world ever found using the radial velocity technique.

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