radial

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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

To obtain such exact information on the planets in this solar system, the team built computer models using hundreds of radial velocity measurements layered over TTV data.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024

It was a yellow two-seater with a 450-horsepower radial engine, a low wing, and retractable landing gear.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins