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A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .
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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.
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The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.archaic
- 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 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).historical
- 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.
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An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
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The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.figuratively
- sphere of influence
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The natural, normal, or proper place (of something).
- in one's sphere
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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 .
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The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.dated
- 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.
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A food preparation comprising a flavorful liquid treated by spherification to produce spheres.
ant. asphere