sphere
IPA: sfˈɪr
noun
- (mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .
- A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
- (astronomy, now rare) The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.
- (historical, astronomy, mythology) 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).
- (mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
- (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
- The natural, normal, or proper place (of something).
- (geometry) 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 .
- (logic, dated) The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.
verb
- (transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
- (transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.
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Examples of "sphere" in Sentences
- The device is attached to the sphere.
- The sphere in the center is reflective.
- They trap the monster in the Sphere of Yun.
- The planet is embedded in the epicycle sphere.
- The third is the surface of an ordinary sphere.
- The 3 dimensional analog of the circle is the sphere.
- The mapping of the coordinates to the sphere is correct.
- It belongs to the sphere of the Church, not of the State.
- See additional notes, No. VI.] [_Or sphere on sphere_. l.
- Other sphere is around our personal presentation of self.
- English was the chief representative of the receptive sphere.
- In many ways a sphere is the simplest shape an object can take.
- Whether or not the information was in the public sphere is irrelevant.
- The axis of this sphere extends beyond its poles and skewers the outer sphere.
- The World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz fighting back against what he calls a sphere campaign with help from President Bush.
- What is, however, urgently necessary in this sphere is a marked increase in the security capabilities on the European side.
- And, for her own happiness, all the more because her sphere is at home, her home stores should be exhaustless – the stores she cannot go abroad to seek.
- Must I be comforted, not in his sphere] I cannot be united with him and move in the same _sphere_, but _must be comforted_ at a distance by the _radiance_ that shoots _on all sides_ from him.
- "Perhaps never," said Lilian, endeavoring, not very successfully, to steady her voice and speak with _nonchalance_, "unless you are willing to leave what you call your sphere and seek me in mine."
- It teaches us more than this: that, as man has smaller language than woman, his sphere is the domestic; is the quiet, the silent, the unobtrusive; is one of silent influences, not public and demonstrative like that of woman.