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radial

[ray-dee-uhl] / ˈreɪ di əl /


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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

Spectroscopy also allowed the team to measure the object's radial velocity, which describes its motion toward or away from the observer.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 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

But the promised buildings have never materialised, and Crown Road, a four-kilometre circular road with 12 radial routes is still under construction.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Across America, ophthalmologists rediscovered an obscure and risky procedure called radial keratotomy, and there was a boom in surgery to correct small impairments of vision.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

It suggests that, contrary to Johanson's argument, the radials of lungfish and other lobe-finned fish are not all equivalent to digits.

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

Had the applicant been refused on account of his high tension, sclerosis of the radials, and slightly enlarged heart there would undoubtedly have been protests.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield




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