spherical
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- sphærical (archaic)
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin sphericus, from Ancient Greek σφαιρικός (sphairikós) + -al
Adjective[edit]
spherical (comparative more spherical, superlative most spherical)
- (geometry) Shaped like a sphere.
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2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
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- (geometry) (no comparative or superlative) Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
- (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
- (astrology) Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
- 1606: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2
- Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.
- 1606: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2
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Translations[edit]
shaped like a sphere
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of or relating to a sphere or spheres
Further reading[edit]
- spherical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- spherical in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- spherical at OneLook Dictionary Search
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
spherical
