outwards

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Describing movement towards
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forwards
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Examples of inwards

inwards
Such torques are transferred inwards towards the base of the robot resulting in increased joint torques.
Each frontal strut gives off a short, broad branch directed inwards, at the posterior corner of which is another mandibular condyle.
During a half-cycle of compression, the gas volume reduces, and the interface moves inwards towards the gas.
Legible text set right round face, with letters in relief and facing inwards.
An exception to this is rare layering observed in the olivine glomerocrystic gabbro, where layering may dip either inwards or outwards.
Amplitudes have been normalized by the maximum; the flow is inwards along the streamlines; for sources the flows are outwards.
A careful examination of figure 1 shows that this new vortex grows as the aerofoil moves inwards from its peak displacement.
In the frontspiece, however, the individuals comprising the state face inwards rather than outwards. 45.
A tabular lava flow emplaced rapidly on a rock substrate begins to cool from inwards-advancing upper and lower solidification fronts.
It is found from the equations of motion to act inwards and to be constant.
This may also be due to the fact that some energy is now spreading inwards instead of all being convected downstream with the disturbances.
The key to connected normal form, then, is to push all linking inwards as far as possible, including closures.
Flows proceed inwards, and then clockwise around attractor cycles.
The libidinous resources within each human being are pushed inwards in contraction and not outwards into expansion.
The latter is probably only a small though perceptible part of the pulse produced by the initial inwards momentum, even a t resonance.
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