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sphere
- /sfɪə/ UK
- /sfɪː/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈsfɪj.ə/ British, Southern, Standard
- /sfɪɚ/ US
- /sfiɾ/ Scotland
- /sfɛː/
Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor.
Latin sphaera
Late Latin sphērader.
Old French spherebor.
Middle English spere
English sphere
From Middle English spere, from Old French sphere, from Late Latin sphēra, earlier Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), of unknown origin. Not related to superficially similar Persian سپهر (sepehr, “sky”) .
Displaced Old English cliewen, þoþor, and æppel.
noun spheres · sphaere · sphære · sphear · spheare
- A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .
- 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.
- The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded. Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere.
- 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). ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare, Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.
- An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
- The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain. sphere of influence
- The natural, normal, or proper place (of something). in one's sphere
- 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 .
- The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies. 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.
- A food preparation comprising a flavorful liquid treated by spherification to produce spheres.
verb spheres · sphering · sphered · sphaere · sphære
- To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere. The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other.
- To make round or spherical; to perfect. sphered Whole
