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armillary spheres

armillary spheres is the plural of armillary sphere.

Meaning of armillary sphere

Noun

armillary sphere (plural armillary spheres)

  1. An instrument consisting of graduated metal circles used to represent the motions of celestial bodies around the earth.
    • Most of this bench is covered with tiles of Moorish design, but on the front each is stamped with an armillary sphere in which the axis is yellow, the lines of the equator and tropics green, and the rest blue. These one would certainly take to be of Dom Manoel's time, for the armillary sphere was...1908, Walter Crum Watson, Portuguese Architecture, page 24
    Synonyms:
    armill

Questions about armillary spheres

What is armillary spheres the plural of?
Armillary spheres is the plural of armillary sphere.

Words near armillary spheres in the dictionary

  1. Armillaria root rot
  2. armillarias
  3. armillarioid
  4. armillary
  5. armillary sphere
  6. armillary spheres
  7. armillas
  8. armillate
  9. armills
  10. armils
  11. armilustrum

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