[
UK
/sfˈɛɹɪkəl/
]
[ US /ˈsfɛɹɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsfɛɹɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having the shape of a sphere or ball
a spherical object
little globular houses like mud-wasp nests
nearly orbicular in shape -
of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere
spherical geometry
How To Use spherical In A Sentence
- Interestingly, the shapes of these adsorbed liposomes do not appear spherical, but rather disk-shaped.
- He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
- All five were hollow, spherical objects (balls).
- Since the cloud was rotating, its spherical shape flattened into a disc.
- The design of contact lenses can be divided into spherical, toric and multifocal.
- Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall.
- Higher order spherical aberration in apochromats is a result of strongly curved lens surfaces.
- The code was validated by comparing the computed forces and torques with the analytic solutions for a hemisphere and sphere in point contact with the wall and also computations for axisymmetric spherical caps and spheroids.
- Based on his studies of a frog's tongue, Waller made important observations on diapedesis of leukocytes and reported that pus originated from ‘the colourless of spherical corpuscles from the capillaries.’
- Through numerical comparison, it reveals that the paraboloidal shell of second degree i. e. the shallow spherical shell is a most favorable design among all under this particular loading.