sphericity

IPA: sfˈɛrɪsɪti

noun

  • (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being spherical, being a sphere.
  • (geometry, countable) The ratio of the surface area of a given particle to the surface area of a sphere with the same volume.
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Examples of "sphericity" in Sentences

  • Bucky Fuller used sphericity to make his kind of buildings
  • I hope that these deviations from sphericity are not terribly large for sn1's.
  • Cusa describes the sight of God as an "eye of sphericity ... of infinite perfection."
  • Of course unlike the sphericity of the Earth, you have to do more than look at a photograph to figure it out.
  • The other three, no longer quite able to attain sphericity and thus moving more slowly than normally, followed.
  • Theophrastus, who is the primary basis of the doxographical tradition, says that it was Parmenides who discovered the sphericity of the earth
  • 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
  • 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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