word | spherical |
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definition | Relating to a sphere; shaped like a sphere or one of its segments. |
eg_sentence | The girls agreed that the spacecraft had been deep blue and perfectly spherical, and that its alien passengers had resembled large praying mantises. |
explanation | Something spherical is like a sphere in being round, or more or less round, in three dimensions. Apples and oranges are both spherical, for example, even though they're never perfectly round. A spheroid has a roughly spherical shape; so an asteroid, for instance, is often spheroidal—fairly round, but lumpy |
IPA | sˈfɛrɪkəl |
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