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spherical cows

spherical cows is the plural of spherical cow.

Meaning of spherical cow

Noun

spherical cow (plural spherical cows)

  1. (humorous) A highly simplified scientific model of a complex real-life phenomenon.
    • […] something of a "spherical cow" approximation of dark matter.Csaba Csaki (ed.), Scott Dodelson (ed.), Physics of the Large and the Small: TASI 09, Proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (page 405)

Questions about spherical cows

What is spherical cows the plural of?
Spherical cows is the plural of spherical cow.

Words near spherical cows in the dictionary

  1. spherical chickens
  2. spherical cone
  3. spherical cones
  4. spherical coordinates
  5. spherical cow
  6. spherical cows
  7. spherical curve
  8. spherical curves
  9. spherical excess
  10. spherical geometries
  11. spherical geometry

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