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- English Word Sphenoid Definition Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone.
- English Word Sphenoid Definition A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
- English Word Sphenoid Definition The sphenoid bone.
- English Word Sphenoidal Definition Sphenoid.
- English Word Sphenoidal Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid.
- English Word Sphenotic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, the sphenotic bone.
- English Word Sphenotic Definition The sphenotic bone.
- English Word Spheral Definition Of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres.
- English Word Spheral Definition Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.
- English Word Sphere Definition A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
- English Word Sphere Definition Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
- English Word Sphere Definition The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
- English Word Sphere Definition In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
- English Word Sphere Definition The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
- English Word Sphere Definition Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
- English Word Sphere Definition Rank; order of society; social positions.
- English Word Sphere Definition An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
- English Word Sphere Definition To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
- English Word Sphere Definition To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.
- English Word Sphered Definition of Sphere
- English Word Spheric Definition Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.
- English Word Spheric Definition Of or pertaining to a sphere.
- English Word Spheric Definition Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
- English Word Spherical Definition Alt. of Spheric
- English Word Sphericity Definition The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.
- English Word Sphericle Definition A small sphere.
- English Word Spherics Definition The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.
- English Word Sphering Definition of Sphere
- English Word Spherobacteria Definition See the Note under Microbacteria.
- English Word Spheroconic Definition A nonplane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere whose center is at the vertex of the cone.