Adjective
spherical (comparative more spherical, superlative most spherical)
- (geometry) Shaped like a sphere.
- Synonyms: globular, orbicular, round
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist: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.
- (geometry, not comparable) Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
- (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
- (astrology) Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.
- (statistics, econometrics) Of a multivariate probability distribution, to have a covariance matrix equal to the identity matrix up to a multiplicative factor.
- a spherical Gaussian distribution
Translations
shaped like a sphere
- Arabic: كُرَوِيّ (kurawiyy)
- Armenian: գնդաձեւ (hy) (gndajew)
- Assamese: ঘূৰণীয়া (ghuronia), গোল (gül), টুপুৰা (tupura)
- Asturian: esféricu (ast)
- Bulgarian: сферичен (bg) (sferičen), кълбовиден (bg) (kǎlboviden)
- Burmese: လုံး (my) (lum:)
- Catalan: esfèric (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 球形的 (qiúxíng de), 球面的 (qiúmiàn de)
- Czech: kulovitý (cs)
- Danish: sfærisk
- Dutch: bolvormig (nl)
- Esperanto: sfereca
- Estonian: sfääriline
- Finnish: pallomainen (fi), pyöreä (fi)
- French: sphérique (fr)
- Galician: esférico (gl)
- Georgian: სფერული (speruli)
- German: kugelförmig (de), sphärisch (de), kugelig (de)
- Greek: σφαιρικός (el) (sfairikós)
- Hungarian: gömbölyű (hu)
- Indonesian: bulat (id)
- Irish: sféarúil
- Italian: sferico (it)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: globōsus
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sfærisk
- Nynorsk: sfærisk
- Occitan: esferic (oc)
- Ottoman Turkish: یومرو (yumru), طوپاق (topak)
- Pashto: غونډ (ps) (ǧunḍ)
- Plautdietsch: runt
- Polish: sferyczny (pl), kulisty (pl)
- Portuguese: esférico (pt)
- Romanian: sferic (ro)
- Russian: сфери́ческий (ru) (sferíčeskij)
- Scots: spherical
- Spanish: esférico (es)
- Sundanese: buleud (su)
- Swedish: sfärisk (sv), klotformad (sv)
- Tagalog: timbulugin, timbulog (tl)
- Ukrainian: сфери́чний (sferýčnyj), куля́стий (kuljástyj)
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of or relating to a sphere or spheres
Further reading
- “spherical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “spherical”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “spherical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.