Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/
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/ˈsfiːɹɪkəl/
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sfɛɹɪkəl
Adjective
Shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.
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The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
Usage- not-comparable
Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
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Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.
Of a multivariate probability distribution, to have a covariance matrix equal to the identity matrix up to a multiplicative factor.
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a spherical Gaussian distribution
Adjective
of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere
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spherical geometry
having the shape of a sphere or ball
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a spherical object
nearly orbicular in shape