radial
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But the promised buildings have never materialised, and Crown Road, a four-kilometre circular road with 12 radial routes is still under construction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The playa is arranged as a semicircle, and radial streets are named as if their position were a clock face.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
In addition to a rainbow of radial lasers, a brilliant column of light shoots into the sky, à la the Sacramento Kings’ beam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
One of the four sub-Earth exoplanets discovered is the least massive world ever found using the radial velocity technique.
From Space Scoop ● Apr. 23, 2025
Years earlier, Beck had undergone a radial keratotomy* to correct his vision.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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But wrist and hand could not have originated as a package deal, as Thorogood proposed, because lungfish and other living and fossil lobe-finned fishes have radials or wrist bones without having digits.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2020
The book focusses on six designs: arcs or waves, meanders, spirals, radials or explosions, cells and networks, and fractals.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
The federal government poured money into the brand new interstate system, encouraging radials, arteries and thoroughfares through dense urban neighbourhoods.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2018
In the deep violet light at 70 feet, the sight is shocking: steel-belted radials covering an area the size of 27 football fields.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2016
The depressed forms with 6 radials and a more slender central represent var. spinosior Lem.
From North American Species of Cactus by Coulter, John Merle