Crossword clues for sunward
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunward \Sun"ward\, adv. Toward the sun.
Wiktionary
a. Directed or turned toward the sun. adv. In the direction of the sun.
Wikipedia
Sunward may refer to:
- Sunward Aurora, Chinese light-sport aircraft
- Sunward Cohousing, an intentional community located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Sunward Aerospace Group Limited, a manufacturer of model rockets and hobby store retailer
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, a cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line 1966–1976
- MS Sunward II, a cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line 1977–1991
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, a cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line 1991–1992 and 1992–1993
- Sunward UAV SUF-30 Flying Goose unmanned aerial vehicle
- A book describing the inner solar system for the Eclipse Phase role playing game
Usage examples of "sunward".
She had made good time, only once falling short of the thermal she was aiming at, having to glide sunward and find another and then backtrack.
The thermal on the sunlit side must be enormous, and a permanent cloud hung above it, streaming away sunward on one edge, continually reforming on the other.
Eleven birds sat on the sunward side of the aerie, all hooded and still.
The sunward crossing--from Rand to Range--was the easier, aided by the cold wind.
Against the darkward face of Rakarr, of course, the cold wind rose in an updraft, and skill was needed there: The rider had to gain altitude to be able to circle the peak and reach the thermal above the sunward face.
It was those clouds which kept the Range fertile, their precious rainfall seeping through the volcanic rock to emerge as springs on the sunward side, but they could be death for a bird and its rider.
The air to sunward was full of wheeling birds and cursing riders, a great column of specks curving high into the sky with its base close above the fields and terraces on the sunward side of Rakarr.
His force had to dive out of the sunward thermal and pass directly over his head and down into the Big Jump.
As it hurtled Sunward, Jupiter had failed to hang on to its outer satellites and the two bodies the Cygnans had brought.
An asteroid hollow has been diverted from its Martian orbit into a powered sunward trajectory.
Such a collision could well have sent the giant ice ball reeling sunward for the first time.
Some heat would be carried around by atmospheric circulation from the sunward side, but not enough, it would seem, to keep water from being perpetually frozen, or the ground from being baked with unrelaxing frost.
And the distances, interplanetary, which once had cost lives and the wealth of The World, which were fearful chasms for the primitive drivers, were but winged thoughts for a mote flying at wind velocity, even beating sunward as the computer lowered mass reduction to use the gravity of the sun itself to hasten the fall toward the burning light.
Artonuee and doomed, but she flew, and the sun gave her energy and the sails used it and the convertors hummed and gravity was the rudder, and down, down, down she soared on the wings of the solar wind, until with First Planet on the sunward wing, sails baffling on a hard tack, she was near, near to the source, the heat of it, the power of it.
Even an Artonuee driver could not outdistance a flyer on a sunward track.