Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being globose; sphericity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sphericity.
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- noun A
spherical orglobose shape.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the roundness of a 3-dimensional object
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are people in this world who think they are elves; there are people who think they are Jedi knights; likely there are people who think they are soft-boiled eggs, and derive some ersatz certainty and comfort from their self-conceived globosity.
The taste for magic superversive 2008
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One of the most celebrated geographers among the ancients, flourished during the reign of Augustus; -- we allude to Strabo: his fundamental principles are, the globosity of the earth, and its centripetal force; he also lays down rules for constructing globes, but he seems ignorant of the mode of fixing the position of places by their latitude or longitude, or, at least, he neglects it.
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[13] A book of the concavity and globosity formed round various objects at the bottom.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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[13] A book of the concavity and globosity formed round various objects at the bottom.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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