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[ UK /sfˈɛɹɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈsfɛɹɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having the shape of a sphere or ball
    a spherical object
    little globular houses like mud-wasp nests
    nearly orbicular in shape
  2. 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.
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