What is "spinward"

Usage examples of "spinward".

Presently, an indicator moved and there was a slight increase in weight as spinward jets came to life and sent Vega Jumpoff wheeling ever so insignificantly faster about its hub.

Air masses flow in from spinward and antispinward --" "And port and starboard.

Then more to spinward, and these large flames to port and starboard, then more small ones on the antispinward Arch.

For tonight’s performance the Bowl would be staying where it was, at the point of a small peninsula on the shores of Bandel Lake, Guerno Plate, a dozen continents to spinward from Xaravve.

She scattered her mother as flakes of carbon over the upper Afine canyons Spinward of Undine, as Mirandar had requested.

Then, seven of them made the journey, to a place slightly Spinward of Undine and 1,300 kilometres from Chapel Halls, to a mist-shrouded tributary valley off one of the major Afine canyons.

Grey and unmarked, the 16,000 cubic kilometre vastness of the Rim wall stretched away to Spinward and AntiSpinward of him blocking the stars, 4,000 kilometres long.

The Child Empress Anastasia Vista Khaman, heir to the throne and Lady of the Spinward Reaches.

Grabbed a steaming, sweet cup of cvceese' on my way through the VOQ lobby, then strode out into the early morning duskinesswhere the star Hador was already clearing Atalanta's spinward horizon with a swollen streak of burnt orangeand caught a grimy freight tram to the underground hangar.

He looked down towards the turquoise beginnings of Marineris, upcurling away from him to Spinward along the orbital.

A heavy train is one moving spinward, with the spin, thus adding its velocity to the speed of the turning wheel.