radial
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The team applied a technique known as the radial velocity method, which was also used to discover the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
That’s where the group’s volunteers work in concert with Southern California Gas crews patching the scores of potholes created by extreme nature, not by radial tires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Although it is located only 25 light-years away, astronomers needed 27 years after first detecting its radial wobble to identify the hidden white dwarf.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Warwick team, working with astronomers from the University of Colorado Boulder in the US, was interested in the four nearby systems because of a "substantial radial wobble".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
When taken out of the stocks his skin was cold and shrivelled; there was no perceptible pulsation in the temporal or radial arteries, and he complained of severe cephalgia ...
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Typically the end of the pectoral fin skeleton contains small bones called radials that support the rodlike fin rays.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2020
The book focusses on six designs: arcs or waves, meanders, spirals, radials or explosions, cells and networks, and fractals.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
The federal government poured money into the brand new interstate system, encouraging radials, arteries and thoroughfares through dense urban neighbourhoods.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2018
In the deep violet light at 70 feet, the sight is shocking: steel-belted radials covering an area the size of 27 football fields.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2016
The capillary radials give the plant a white-woolly appearance.
From North American Species of Cactus by John Merle Coulter
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