‘A tiny somewhat spherical shaped object appeared off in the distance, moving quickly and effortlessly to the side of the craft.’
‘I get dressed in my armor, and then I touch the spherical shaped switch that will bring the lift up to my room.’
‘The elliptical shape can curve, but a round spherical shape can not.’
‘Most of the major varieties are illustrated as well as some of their companions - the infamous bubble dome stereos, spherical speakers and round, hanging televisions.’
‘Trees with this form have several to many lateral branches that compete with the central stem for dominance resulting in a spherical or globose crown.’
‘It was round and spherical, with a deep groove on one side.’
‘The container looked much like a scientific chemical bottle, with a rounded, spherical bottom and an elongated neck.’
‘Through the gentle curves of its spherical design, the stadium merges with its surroundings.’
‘She could see the round, spherical canvasses stretched across the metal, almost grotesquely.’
‘The pills are perfectly spherical, opaque, and shiny, like tiny pearls.’
‘The huge, perfectly spherical structure sat like a giant black pearl in the middle of the city.’
‘What adds a certain urgency to his message is that he himself has suffered a heart attack, even though he does not conform to the generously fat-reinforced spherical figures that he has been talking about.’
‘He proved that the earth was spherical and speculated about sailing around the world 17 centuries before Columbus.’
‘All five were hollow, spherical objects (balls).’
‘An oblong Earth that swells out at the equator would turn more slowly than a spherical Earth - astronomers use the analogy of a figure skater who turns faster as he draws in his arms.’
‘At 85 km, the self-stabilizing spherical capsule separates.’
‘At the stove, someone is lifting pancakes from the skillet, placing them in the warmer, and pouring in fresh batter which distributes itself into spherical shapes.’
‘I had that experience in the early 80s, when I spent five days racing around a maze eating spherical doughnuts, and waiting for my ghostly pursuers to turn blue.’
‘A fish heart is almost spherical just as a whale's (a mammal) is.’
‘The US system consists of a small box that digitally scans fingerprints and a spherical computer camera that snaps pictures.’
‘The design of contact lenses can be divided into spherical, toric and multifocal.’
‘The small incision induces minimal postoperative astigmatism (change in the spherical curvature of the cornea).’
‘Typically, a neutron star will have the mass of one and a half suns compressed into a spherical volume just 10-15 km in diameter.’
‘They had the typical appearance of spherical or elliptical aggregates of altered erythrocytes surrounded by an envelope.’
‘It is a mathematical truism that a spherical surface cannot be developed into a plane.’
1.2Formed inside or on the surface of a sphere.
‘For example, he held that fire rises in order to reach its natural place, a spherical shell just inside the orbit of the moon.’
‘Axonometric distortion creates the illusion that these rows occur upon spherical surfaces: they appear to overlay a field of bulging convexities and receding concavities.’
‘They then wrote software to design circuits on spherical surfaces without distorting the physics of electrons that whiz through wires thinner than a human hair.’
‘This exotic matter forms a thin spherical shell and has negative mass and positive surface pressure.’
‘‘Now that's what they normally look like,’ she explains, pointing to clusters of cells - spherical structures, hollow on the inside.’
‘Kepler showed that the distances of the planets can be correlated with the radii of spherical shells, which are inscribed within, and circumscribed around, a nest of the five regular solids.’
Origin
Late 15th century via late Latin from Greek sphairikos, from sphaira (see sphere).
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