Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being in the shape of a sphere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being spherial; roundness.
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- noun The quality of being
spherical , being asphere . - noun geometry, countable The ratio of the
surface area of a given particle to thesurface area of a sphere with the samevolume .
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- noun the roundness of a 3-dimensional object
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cusa describes the sight of God as an "eye of sphericity ... of infinite perfection."
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I hope that these deviations from sphericity are not terribly large for sn1's.
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Bucky Fuller used sphericity to make his kind of buildings
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Plato, Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Posidonius, and all the geometricians of Asia, of Egypt, and of Greece, having acknowledged the sphericity of our globe, how did it happen that we, for so long
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Of course unlike the sphericity of the Earth, you have to do more than look at a photograph to figure it out.
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Theophrastus, who is the primary basis of the doxographical tradition, says that it was Parmenides who discovered the sphericity of the earth
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The other three, no longer quite able to attain sphericity and thus moving more slowly than normally, followed.
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The other three, no longer quite able to attain sphericity and thus moving more slowly than normally, followed.
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The other three, no longer quite able to attain sphericity and thus moving more slowly than normally, followed.
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In a sense, we suffer from the same kind of geometrical bias concern - ing space-time as does the man who thinks the earth is flat because he cannot detect its sphericity in his small patch of ground.
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