spherical
adjective
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Something spherical is like a sphere in being round, or more or less round, in three dimensions. Apples and oranges are both spherical, for example, even though they're never perfectly round. A spheroid has a roughly spherical shape; so an asteroid, for instance, is often spheroidal—fairly round, but lumpy.
Examples of spherical in a Sentence
Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 May 2024
On top of the special setting, the resort (rightfully) prides itself on its jaw-dropping architecture: spherical wood, brick, and thatch villas tucked into the forest, each with views of the volcano.
—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2024
Other modules will include Node, with an airlock and docking facilities, also developed by Sierra Space, as well as a spherical Core module developed by Blue Origin.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2024
This weekend in New York City, for one, Rosalía emerged wearing a voluminous Celine faux fur coat that was almost spherical.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 5 May 2024
And scientists have plenty of evidence to prove space exists and that the Earth is spherical, not flat.
—Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
And Mama Kelce is larger than life, looming over the skyline on the dome of the Sphere arena, the world’s largest spherical structure lit by more than a million LED lights.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2024
Ursa is a new spherical doubleshot keycap profile for Topre that is available for group buy until May 15th.
—Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
These calculations are so complex that physicists often revert to simple solutions that make the equations involved more manageable, such as assuming spherical symmetry.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Spherical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spherical. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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