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
Running down the trunk in the glaring spiral of a fresh scar two hand-breadths wide went the swath along which the bolt had plunged groundward.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
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 denizens of the woods had taken shelter under the trees; in some of these the branches, snow-laden, had dropped groundward, forming quite a series of tents in the forest.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables
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