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Spherical

adjective

Of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere.

Having the shape of a sphere or ball. Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric. "Nearly orbicular in shape" , "Little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"

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"Spherical" Quotes from Famous Books

... photographic camera is perfect lenses. They should be achromatic, and the utmost transparency should be obtained; and under the closest inspection of the glass not the slightest wavy appearance, or dark spot should be detected; and a curvature which as much as possible prevents spherical aberration should be secured. The effect produced by this last defect is a convergence of perpendiculars, as for instance; two towers of any building, would be represented as leaning towards each other; and in a portrait the features ...

— The History and Practice of the Art of Photography • Henry H. Snelling

... Although the familiar spherical balloon has proved perfectly adequate for reconnoitring in the British and French armies, the German authorities maintained that it was not satisfactory in anything but calm weather. Accordingly scientific ...

— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... my early work Dr. Draper suggested a very excellent plan for testing a flat surface, which I briefly describe. It is a well known truth that, if an artificial star is placed in the exact center of curvature of a truly spherical mirror, and an eyepiece be used to examine the image close beside the source of light, the star will be sharply defined, and will bear very high magnification. If the eyepiece is now drawn toward the observer, the star disk ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 • Various

... from the unknown spaces around me, and rushed back to the shelter of the home-walls. But as I grew older I became more adventurous; and one evening, although the shadows were beginning to lengthen, I went on and on until I made a discovery. I found a half-spherical hollow in the grassy surface. I rushed into its depth as if it had been a mine of marvels, threw myself on the ground, and gazed into the sky as if I had now for the first time discovered its true relation to the earth. The earth was a cup, ...

— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald

... layers, and the mode of their formation. Does the occurrence of blastulae and gastrulae and one-celled beginnings mean that the higher animals composed of numerous and much differentiated cells have evolved in company from two-layered saccular ancestors which were themselves the descendants of spherical colonies of like cells, and ultimately ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

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