spherical
/ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/
spherical adjective: shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.
Adjective
spherical (comparative more spherical, superlative most spherical)
- Shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.
- 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.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
- Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
- Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
- Of or relating 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.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...
- Of a multivariate probability distribution, to have a covariance matrix equal to the identity matrix up to a multiplicative factor.
- a spherical Gaussian distribution
spherical meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
spherical in Hindi
- shaped like a sphere
- वलयाकार valyākār, गोलाकार golākār
spherical in Tamil
- கோளத்திற்குரிய, கோளமான, கோளகம், கோளவுருவான
spherical in Marathi
- गोलाकार
spherical in Bengali
- গোলাকার, গোলকাকৃতি
More languagesFewer languages
- spherical in Telugu
- ఆణి āṇi
- spherical in Malayalam
- ഗോളീയ, ഗോളവുമായി രൂപത്തിൽ സാദൃശ്യമുള്ള
- spherical in Kannada
- ಗುಂಡು guṇḍu
- spherical in Punjabi
- ਗੋਲਾਕਾਰ
- spherical in Odia
- ଗୋଲାକାର
- spherical in Assamese
- ঘূৰণীয়া ghuronia, গোল gül, টুপুৰা tupura
- spherical in Nepali
- गोलाकार, गोळाकार
- spherical in Pashto
- غونډ ǧunḍ
- spherical in Tagalog
- timbulugin, timbulog
- spherical in Arabic
- كُرَوِيّ kurawiyy
- spherical in Indonesian
- bulat
- spherical in Myanmar
- လုံး lum:
Examples of spherical in a sentence
- Acorns come in spherical and fusiform varieties.
- The Earth is technically not spherical, but it is spherelike.
- The basic concepts of Euclidean geometry of the plane are the point and the (straight) line; in spherical geometry, the corresponding concepts are the point and the great circle.
Synonyms of spherical
Forms of spherical
| comparative | more spherical |
|---|---|
| superlative | most spherical |
| alternative form (archaic) | sphærical |
Origin of spherical
English spheric [from Latin sphaericus, from Ancient Greek σφαιρικός (sphairikós)] + -al.
Words formed from spherical
- aspherical
- biospherical
- bispherical
- conicospherical
- conospherical
- demispherical
- extraspherical
- fluorospherical
- hemispherical
- hyperspherical
- intraspherical
- macrospherical
- microspherical
- monospherical
- nanospherical
- neurospherical
- nonspherical
- pentaspherical
- perispherical
- pseudospherical
- quasispherical
- semispherical
- spherical aberration
- spherical angle
- spherical cap
- spherical chicken
- spherical cone
- spherical coordinates
- spherical cow
- spherical curve
- spherical distance
- spherical excess
- spherical geometry
- spherical harmonics
- sphericality
- sphericalization
- spherical linear interpolation
- spherical lune
- spherically
- spherical mirror
- sphericalness
- spherical nucleic acid
- spherical polygon
- spherical polyhedron
- spherical sector
- spherical segment
- spherical triangle
- spherical trigonometry
- spherical wedge
- sphericity
- subspherical
- tetraspherical
- ultraspherical
Phrases with spherical
- spherical caps
- spherical cows
- spherical cones
- spherical lunes
- spherical angles
- spherical curves
- spherical wedges
- spherical chickens
- spherical polygons
- spherical polyhedra
- spherical triangles
- spherical geometries
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Words that rhyme with spherical
Questions about spherical
- What does spherical mean?
- Spherical means shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.
- What is spherical in Hindi?
- Spherical in Hindi is वलयाकार (valyākār), गोलाकार (golākār). See Spherical meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is spherical?
- Spherical is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce spherical?
- Spherical is pronounced /ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/.
Words near spherical in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spherical (page history and authors); spherical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spherical (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spherical (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఆణి (Telugu) (page history and authors); spherical (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಗುಂಡು (Kannada) (page history and authors); spherical (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spherical (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spherical (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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