disk-shaped
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This indicates that most of these highly star-forming galaxies are intrinsically spherical rather than disk-shaped.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
It's implanted within a small disk-shaped cutout in the skull using a precision surgical robot.
From Salon • May 31, 2023
Based on the creature’s flattened, disk-shaped vertebrae, he erroneously concluded that ichthyosaurs were a link between lizards and salamanders.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2022
The team’s breakthrough was arguably using a comparatively simpler approach centered on piping twin beams of laser light into a millimeter-wide, disk-shaped crystal cavity.
From Scientific American • Mar. 9, 2022
In recent years, infrared observations have revealed a number of likely preplanetary disk-shaped clouds of gas and dust around some of the nearby stars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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