spherical

Definition

Shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight."
• "Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance."
• "a spherical Gaussian distribution"