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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

tailward en · ADJ

Etymology

From tail + -ward.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Toward the tail.
    • Both physical arguments and simulations of the global heliosphere indicate that the tailward heliopause is flattened considerably in the direction perpendicular to the large-scale interstellar magnetic field. 2015, Jens Kleimann, Christian Röken, Horst Fichtner, Jacob Heerikhuisen, “Toward more realistic analytic models of the heliotail: Incorporating magnetic flattening via distortion flows”, in arXiv:

tailward en · ADV

Etymology

From tail + -ward.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Toward the tail.

Synonyms

caudally · caudad