sphere
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor. Latin sphaera Late Latin sphērader. Old French spherebor. Middle English spere English sphere From Middle English spere, from Old French sphere, from Late Latin sphēra, earlier Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), of unknown origin. Not related to superficially similar Persian سپهر (sepehr, “sky”) . Displaced Old English cliewen, þoþor, and æppel.
Definitions
A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .
An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere
An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere; a round object, a ball.
- Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere, he framed.
- So your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere, and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it.
The celestial sphere
The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.
- Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere.
- Resistless rolls the illimitable sphere, / And one great circle forms the unmeasured year.
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Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the…
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).
- ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare, Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.
- It is more simplicitie to teach our children[…][t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare, before their owne.
- They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.
An area of activity for a planet
An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
The region in which something or someone is active
The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
- sphere of influence
- They thought – originally on grounds derived from religion – that each thing or person had its or his proper sphere, to overstep which is ‘unjust’.
The natural, normal, or proper place (of something).
- in one's sphere
The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in…
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 .
The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the…
The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.
- In point of fact, so often as we think a subject as partially included within the sphere of a predicate, eo ipso we think it as partially, that is, particularly, excluded therefrom.
- Finally, the disjunctive judgment contains a relation of two or more propositions to each other—a relation not of consequence, but of logical opposition, in so far as the sphere of the one proposition excludes that of the other.
To place in a sphere, or among the spheres
To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
- The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other.
- Sphere all your lights around, above; Sleep, gentle heavens, before the prow; Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now, My friend, the brother of my love.
To make round or spherical
To make round or spherical; to perfect.
- sphered Whole
The neighborhood
- neighboratmosphere
- neighborhemisphere
- neighbormagnetosphere
- neighborn-sphere
- neighborplanisphere
- neighbor-sphere
- neighborspherical
- neighborspheroid
- neighborball
- neighborMathworld article on the sphere
- neighborPlanetMath article on the sphere
Derived
Afrosphere, Alexander horned sphere, amylosphere, angiosphere, anthosphere, armillary sphere, asphere, astrosphere, Bloch sphere, bronchosphere, cardiosphere, carposphere, caulosphere, circumsphere, colonosphere, colosphere, conisphere, cosmosphere, cosphere, cryptosphere, crystal sphere, Debye sphere, demisphere, digisphere, diving sphere, Dyson sphere, ectosphere, endosphere, ensphere, enterosphere, episphere, esophagosphere, exotic sphere, fluorosphere, fold sphere, halfsphere, hemisphere, hepatosphere, Hill sphere, homology sphere · +69 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at sphere. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at sphere. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at sphere
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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