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adjective

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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Etymology of 'Spherical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spherical" Quotes from Famous Books

... structure of curls and frizzes had now been confined in place by a net of fine gold thread, in which were set, at regular intervals, pearls remarkable for their colour and perfect spherical form; then a dozen long pins with carved gold heads were passed through the net, and above and around all was bound a diadem of thin-beaten gold ornamented with intricate open-work tracery. Finally, the hairdresser, having bade Marcia behold herself in the polished silver ...

— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne

... the model. This base is recessed on top to receive the main plate A, Fig. 24, and also to hold the glass shade N in position. The base M is 21/2" high and 8" diameter. The glass cover N can have either a high and spherical top, as shown, or, as most people prefer, a ...

— Watch and Clock Escapements • Anonymous

... which shall be able to pierce the heaviest armor; and how to construct armor which shall be proof against the heaviest shot. Many saw with interest in the Machinery Building at the Centennial the eight-inch armor-plating made by Cammell of Sheffield, tested in one case by nine spherical shots overlapping, making an indentation of 3.12 inches with balls from a seven-inch gun driven by thirty pounds of powder at a range of seventy feet. They are here again, and so is the nine-inch armor with a much deeper indentation from a chilled ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various

... trifoliate leaves with long petioles; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, dark green. Calyx of 4 imbricated sepals. Corolla of 4 unguiculate petals, between white and straw color, 1' long. Stamens indefinite, violet-colored. Ovary unilocular, many-ovuled. Berry spherical with many seeds ...

— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera

... showed us right abeam a splendid display of the Zodiacal Light, whose pyramid suggested the glow of a hemisphere on fire. The triangle, slightly spherical, measured at its base 22 degrees to 24 degrees and rose to within 6" of Jupiter. The reflection in the water was perfect and lit up with startling ...

— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

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