sphere

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It's not the spheres that are "spikey", the cubes are.

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Quick take

a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sphere gathered in one view.

noun

a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

noun

any spherically shaped artifact

noun

the geographical area in which one nation is very influential

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sphere.

noun

a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

See also: domain, area, orbit, field, arena

noun

any spherically shaped artifact

noun

the geographical area in which one nation is very influential

noun

a particular aspect of life or activity; "he was helpless in an important sector of his life"

noun

a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)

noun

a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center

noun

the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

See also: empyrean, firmament, heavens, welkin

Example sentences

It's not the spheres that are "spikey", the cubes are.

It returns this whether it hit the plane or a sphere.

If you are calculating it as a full sphere, then it's 180 gigapixels.

Physics and mathematics were going to come within his sphere of interest because he'd see he needed them.

Liberty in all spheres of life: the personal, the political, the economic.

Another way of looking at this phenomenon is to inscribe a high dimensional sphere in a hypercube.

Iran was essentially handed an enlarged sphere of influence courtesy of the USA.

As the dimension grows, the sphere/cube volume ratio gets arbitrarily small, although sphere touches the cube at every side.

That defines an imaginary sphere in space, which intersects with the earth's surface to form a circular locus of where the plane could have been at the time.

MS' far-reaching speculative research is the stuff of legend, and far too infrequently translated into the commercial sphere.

I'm a pea-brained dolt in the server sphere, and when I was remaking my server I went with nginx over apache on the advice of a friend because "the config file is easier to understand.

The problem with Java is mainly that people think they have to use all the horribly complex, intrusive, badly written, underperforming frameworks that exist in the Java sphere.

As the lab's Geiger counter clicked hysterically, Louis used his bare hand to push the upper plutonium hemisphere off and onto the floor, which terminated the supercritical reaction moments after it began.