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
Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me, Enter and take their place there sure enough,85 Though they come back and cannot tell the world.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
The shy blue eyes met mine for an instant before 230 they fluttered groundward.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
The next minute the great aeroplane glided groundward and landed within a few feet of the crowd.
From The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest by John Henry Goldfrap
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