Spherical

//ˈsfɛɹɪkəl//

"Spherical" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The child drew a spherical triangle.

The puck of ice hockey is not spherical.

You can eliminate a few constraints from your optimization problem if you parametrize your variables into spherical coordinates.

The sum of the angles of a triangle on a spherical plane is more than 180 degrees.

Contrary to what many people think, during the Middle Ages most people believed that the world was spherical, not flat.

Because Ceres is spherical, it is unlike the majority of the members of the asteroid belt.

An ice hockey puck is not spherical.

Investigators learned that the telescope’s primary mirror suffered from a production error, its edges too flat by 0.003 mm, resulting in an optical problem called spherical aberration.

Since the magnitude of the spherical aberration was well-defined, engineers designed a set of mirrors that astronauts could place aboard Hubble during the previously planned first servicing mission.

This equation is in spherical coordinates.

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The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.

Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.

a spherical Gaussian distribution

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