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radial

adjective as in branching

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Scientists can look for that wobbling, a method called radial velocity measurement.

Other telescopes—both space-based and Earth-based—use what’s known as the radial-velocity method.

From Time

This meant significant progress over measuring the orbiting stars’ velocity in two dimensions by providing the “critical third dimension” of their radial, or 3D, motion.

The team then tested the rats’ memory by having them swim through a radial arm water maze containing six arms, including one with a hidden platform.

His instrument used a clever new way to hunt for other worlds, called the radial velocity technique.

A quadrant of a circle is one quarter of the same, being bounded on two of its sides by two radial lines, as in Figure 49.

In kangaroo rats, which are saltators, the index rises to more than 100 owing to the lengthening of the radial component.

They were in a section of the passage now that corresponded roughly to the statue's radial artery.

The lower bars are probably meant for teeth; what the radial lines on the crown are supposed to be is again conjecture.

The hand of an emaciated individual may be readily injected, both arteries and veins, by fixing the pipe in the radial artery.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to radial, such as: spiral, spreading, branched, outspread, radiating, and spoked.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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