groundward
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The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2012
From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
I trembled when He clasped me round, yet groundward durst not bend, I must not fall to lap of earth, but stand fast to the end.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Hickey, Emily
Not being able to think of any nobler achievements, I cast my eyes groundward, and, on again raising them, I beheld, across the clear space on the door, the single word, 'Try!'
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly
Smoke was pouring out of the chimney of a cabin and falling groundward, as it does in the Arctic during very cold weather.
From The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North by Wolfe, George Ellis
