radial

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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.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025

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

The wrinkles around them were drawn in radial lines inward by laughter.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck