Meaning

5 senses
  1. Shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.

    kugelförmig, sphärisch, kugelig

    сфери́ческийsferíčeskij

    сфери́чнийsferýčnyj, куля́стийkuljástyj

    having the shape of a sphere or ball

  2. (not comparable)Of, or pertaining to, spheres.

    of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere

  3. Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.

  4. Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.

    kugelförmig

    сфери́ческийsferíčeskij

    сфери́чнийsferýčnyj

  5. Of a multivariate probability distribution, to have a covariance matrix equal to the identity matrix up to a multiplicative factor.

    a spherical Gaussian distribution

Examples

10 sentences
  1. The child drew a spherical triangle.

    ruРебёнок нарисовал сферический треугольник. — Karok

    deDas Kind zeichnete ein Kugeldreieck. — chiyochan

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  2. This equation is in spherical coordinates.

    ruЭто уравнение в сферических координатах. — odexed

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  3. An ice hockey puck is not spherical.

    deEin Eishockey-Puck ist nicht kugelförmig. — freddy1

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  4. The puck of ice hockey is not spherical.

    ruХоккейная шайба не является шарообразной. — Lenin_1917

  5. A yaranga is a spherical dwelling similar to a yurt.

    ruЯранга - сферическое жилище, похожее на юрту. — marafon

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
By meaning 1
shaped like a sphere:
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shaped like a sphere:

Origin

English spheric [from Latin sphaericus, from Ancient Greek σφαιρικός (sphairikós)] + -al.

English spheric [from Latin sphaericus, from Ancient Greek σφαιρικός (sphairikós)] + -al.

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