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Spheric, Spherical adj.

1.

Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.

2.

Of or pertaining to a sphere.

3.

Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set. "Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance." "Though the stars were suns, and overburned Their spheric limitations."

Spherical angle, Spherical coordinate, Spherical excess, etc. See under Angle, Coordinate, etc.

Spherical geometry, that branch of geometry which treats of spherical magnitudes; the doctrine of the sphere, especially of the circles described on its surface.

Spherical harmonic analysis. See under Harmonic, a.

Spherical lune,portion of the surface of a sphere included between two great semicircles having a common diameter.

Spherical opening, the magnitude of a solid angle. It is measured by the portion within the solid angle of the surface of any sphere whose center is the angular point.

Spherical polygon,portion of the surface of a sphere bounded by the arcs of three or more great circles.

Spherical projection, the projection of the circles of the sphere upon a plane. See Projection.

Spherical sector. See under Sector.

Spherical segment, the segment of a sphere. See under Segment.

Spherical triangle,re on the surface of a sphere, bounded by the arcs of three great circles which intersect each other.

Spherical trigonometry. See Trigonometry.

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Etymology of 'Spheric'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spheric" Quotes from Famous Books

... end-organ are found in the skin. There is the "spherical end-bulb", into which a sensory axon penetrates; it is believed to be the sense organ for cold. There is the rather similar "cylindrical end-bulb" believed to be the sense organ for warmth. There is the "touch corpuscle", found in the skin of the palms and soles, ...

— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... and argues regarding their character from St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians and from the one hundred and forty-eighth Psalm. As to "the waters which are above the firmament," he takes up the objection of those who hold that, this outside of the universe being spherical, the waters must slide off it, especially if the firmament revolves; and he points out that it is by no means certain that the OUTSIDE of the firmament IS spherical, and insists that, if it does revolve, the water is just what is needed ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... to the memory of his brother Giovanni Buoncampagni. It is called the Monumentum Gregorianum, of a violet-coloured marble from Scravezza in this neighbourhood, adorned with a couple of columns of Touchstone, and two beautiful spherical plates of Alabaster.] At the other end of the corridore, there is a range of antient sepulchral stones ornamented with basso-relievo brought hither from different parts by the Pisan Fleets in the course of their expeditions. I was struck with the figure of a woman lying dead on ...

— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett

... skill, making cylindrical burrows often four to five feet deep, and terminating in a round chamber. Others build a massive oven-shaped structure of clay on a branch or other elevated site. Many of those that creep on trees nest in holes in the wood. The marsh-frequenting kinds attach spherical or oval domed nests to the reeds; and in some cases woven grass and clay are so ingeniously combined that the structure, while light as a basket, is perfectly impervious to the wet and practically indestructible. The most curious nests, however, are the large stick structures on trees and bushes, ...

— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson

... yet not wholly without ruggedness or difficulty; as a country may be eminently fruitful, though it has spots unfit for cultivation: His characters are praised as natural, though their sentiments are sometimes forced, and their actions improbable; as the earth upon the whole is spherical, though its surface is ...

— Preface to Shakespeare • Samuel Johnson

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