spherical

UK /ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/ US /ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/
adj 5

Definitions

adj

1

Shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.

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.

2

Of, or pertaining to, spheres.

3

Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.

4

Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.

Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.

5

Of a multivariate probability distribution, to have a covariance matrix equal to the identity matrix up to a multiplicative factor.

a spherical Gaussian distribution

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