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radial

[rey-dee-uhl] / ˈreɪ di əl /


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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

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




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