spherical
Americanadjective
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shaped like a sphere
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of or relating to a sphere
spherical geometry
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geometry formed on the surface of or inside a sphere
a spherical triangle
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of or relating to heavenly bodies
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of or relating to the spheres of the Ptolemaic or the Copernican system
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Other Word Forms
- nonspheric adjective
- nonspherical adjective
- nonsphericality noun
- nonspherically adverb
- quasi-spherical adjective
- quasi-spherically adverb
- sphericality noun
- spherically adverb
- sphericalness noun
- subspheric adjective
- subspherical adjective
- unspherical adjective
Etymology
Origin of spherical
1515–25; < Late Latin sphēric ( us ) ( spherics 1 ) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Its plans at the time were well-documented, with the Walt Disney Co. initially giving Westcot, as it was to be called, a spherical answer to the Florida park’s Spaceship Earth.
From Los Angeles Times
The goal: hit all seven players on the opposing team using perfectly spherical snowballs made with a special machine, or capture their flag.
From Barron's
Instead of looking directly for faint starlight, they searched for tight groupings of globular clusters, which are dense, spherical collections of stars that typically orbit galaxies.
From Science Daily
The team found that sea silk's iridescence is created by a spherical protein structure known as "photonin."
From Science Daily
However, traditional mathematical models usually assume these particles are perfect spheres because spherical shapes make equations easier to solve.
From Science Daily
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