Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of a sphere; globular.
- adjective Having a shape approximating that of a sphere.
- adjective Of or relating to a sphere.
- adjective Of or relating to celestial bodies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bounded by or having the form of the surface of a sphere: as, a spherical body; a spherical surface; a spherical shell.
- Pertaining or relating to a sphere or spheres, or to sphericity: as, a spherical segment or section; spherical trigonometry.
- Relating to the planets; planetary, in the astrological sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a sphere.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
- adjective etc. See under
Angle ,Coordinate , etc. - adjective that branch of geometry which treats of spherical magnitudes; the doctrine of the sphere, especially of the circles described on its surface.
- adjective See under
Harmonic , a. - adjective portion of the surface of a sphere included between two great semicircles having a common diameter.
- adjective the magnitude of a solid angle. It is measured by the portion within the solid angle of the surface of any sphere whose center is the angular point.
- adjective portion of the surface of a sphere bounded by the arcs of three or more great circles.
- adjective the projection of the circles of the sphere upon a plane. See
Projection . - adjective See under
Sector . - adjective the segment of a sphere. See under
Segment . - adjective re on the surface of a sphere, bounded by the arcs of three great circles which intersect each other.
- adjective See
Trigonometry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geometry shaped like a
sphere - adjective geometry (no
comparative orsuperlative ) of, or pertaining to,spheres - adjective Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient
astronomy andastrology , they were set.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere
- adjective having the shape of a sphere or ball
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the planets seem to be spherical, is the universe spherical as well?
Must Watch: Bill Maher's Religulous Trailer! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The Sony Librie is a stunning e-ink ebook reading device with the most print-like book reading experience you can have at this time (the display moves microscopic black and white particles held within spherical microcapsules).
HOW TO make DRM-free ebooks for the Sony Librie e-ink ebook reader (Make) Grace Lee 2005
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The Sony Librie is a stunning e-ink ebook reading device with the most print-like book reading experience you can have at this time (the display moves microscopic black and white particles held within spherical microcapsules).
Archive 2005-08-01 Grace Lee 2005
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These closed objects are commonly called spherical harmonics, although they are only remotely related to the mathematical definition found in the solution to certain wave functions, most notably the eigenfunctions of angular momentum operators.
UNEASYsilence 2010
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In science terminology, this is called a spherical aberration.
Edward J. Weiler: Earth Day: 10 Incredible Hubble Telescope Images Of Our Universe (PHOTOS) 2010
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In science terminology, this is called a spherical aberration.
Earth Day: 10 Incredible Hubble Telescope Images Of Our Universe (PHOTOS) Edward J. Weiler 2010
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In science terminology, this is called a spherical aberration.
Earth Day: 10 Incredible Hubble Telescope Images Of Our Universe (PHOTOS) 2010
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Here's where I fit in: Scientists and engineers have used one type of gravity model for the past 100 years -- it's called spherical harmonics and is a bit dense to describe here just look at the equation.
Next Generation 2009
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After Hubble's launch and deployment aboard the shuttle in 1990, scientists realized the telescope's primary mirror had a flaw, known as a spherical aberration.
The 'Camera That Saved Hubble' Goes to Smithsonian Museum | Universe Today 2009
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Here's where I fit in: Scientists and engineers have used one type of gravity model for the past 100 years -- it's called spherical harmonics and is a bit dense to describe here just look at the equation.
Kristianto2010 commented on the word spherical
Comparing the SEM images of the unknown White particles and Polysiloxane ash, it is obvious that the two are very much different from each other. The unknown white particle is fiber-like while polysiloxane ash is spherical in structure.
April 12, 2011
bilby commented on the word spherical
Are you leaving unattributed unknown white particle citations on Wordnik? I think we should raised the Terror Threat Level to vexed.
April 12, 2011