spherical
pronunciation
How to pronounce spherical in British English:
UK [ˈsferɪkl]
How to pronounce spherical in American English:
US [ˈsfɪrɪkəl, ˈsfɛr-]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere
- having the shape of a sphere or ball
Word Origin
- spherical (adj.)
- 1520s, from sphere + -ical. Related: Spherically. A spherical number (1640s) is one whose powers always terminate in the same digit as the number itself (5, 6, and 10 are the only ones).
Example
- 1. Only galaxies with a spherical bulge-like component appear to accommodate supermassive black holes .
- 2. This means that if it was magnified to the size of the solar system , it would still appear spherical to within the width of a human hair .
- 3. Both are ways of trying to hold both the flat earth and spherical earth models at the same time .
- 4. More orders are possible but to produce them a perfectly spherical water droplet is required .
- 5. Globular clusters are nearly spherical groups of hundreds of thousands of stars bound by gravity .