sphere
/sfɪə/
A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center.; An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere; a round object, a ball; The region in which something or someone is active
- plural
- spheres
Meanings
- 1
A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center.
Earth looks like a sphere.
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The Earth is a sphere.
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- 2
An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere; a round object, a ball
- 3
The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain
- 4
The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embeddedrare
- 5
Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres)rare
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An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etcrare
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The natural, normal, or proper place (of something)rare
- 8
The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point rare
- 9
The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it appliesrare
- 10
A food preparation comprising a flavorful liquid treated by spherification to produce spheresrare