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Spheric, Spherical  adj.  
1.
Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.
2.
Of or pertaining to a sphere.
3.
Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set. "Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance." "Though the stars were suns, and overburned Their spheric limitations."
Spherical angle, Spherical coordinate, Spherical excess, etc. See under Angle, Coordinate, etc.
Spherical geometry, that branch of geometry which treats of spherical magnitudes; the doctrine of the sphere, especially of the circles described on its surface.
Spherical harmonic analysis. See under Harmonic, a.
Spherical lune,portion of the surface of a sphere included between two great semicircles having a common diameter.
Spherical opening, 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.
Spherical polygon,portion of the surface of a sphere bounded by the arcs of three or more great circles.
Spherical projection, the projection of the circles of the sphere upon a plane. See Projection.
Spherical sector. See under Sector.
Spherical segment, the segment of a sphere. See under Segment.
Spherical triangle,re on the surface of a sphere, bounded by the arcs of three great circles which intersect each other.
Spherical trigonometry. See Trigonometry.






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"Spheric" Quotes from Famous Books



... music, slowly, grandly waking, Till, bathed in beauty, it became a world; Led by his voice, its spheric pathway taking, While glorious clouds ...
— Music and Some Highly Musical People • James M. Trotter

... Impressionism. The same idea rules in all the work of Paul Signac, who has painted some portraits and numerous landscapes. To these two painters is due the method of Pointillism, i.e. the division of tones, not only by touches, as in Monet's pictures, but by very small touches of equal size, causing the spheric shape to act equally upon the retina. The accumulation of these luminous points is carried out over the entire surface of the canvas without thick daubs of paint, and with regularity, whilst with Manet the paint is more or less dense. ...
— The French Impressionists (1860-1900) • Camille Mauclair

... ventrad and becomes much enlarged to form the stomach, figure 5F, i', which may be traced through twenty-five or thirty sections in this series. The epithelium of the stomach is fairly thick, and consists of five or six layers of compact, indistinctly outlined cells with spherical nuclei. Ventrad to the stomach is seen, in figure 5F, a section of the duodenum, i, which extends, with gradually diminishing caliber, for twenty-five or thirty sections caudad to the posterior limit of the stomach, where it opens to ...
— Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator • Albert M. Reese

... furnace. It was covered with a white cloth. He took it off. The vessel was about four feet high, round, and shaped somewhat like a washing tub, but it was made of glass more than an inch thick. In it a spherical mass, a little larger than a football, of a peculiar, livid colour. The surface was smooth, but rather coarsely grained, and over it ran a dense system of blood-vessels. It reminded the two medical men ...
— The Magician • Somerset Maugham

... the more distant ones would resemble ordinary stars. An inhabitant of the cluster would not know, except by a process of ratiocination, that he was dwelling in a globular assemblage of suns; only from a point far outside would their spherical arrangement become evident to the eye. Imagine fourteen-thousand fire-balloons with an approach to regularity in a spherical space — say, ten miles in diameter; there would be an average of less than thirty in every cubic mile, ...
— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss


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