spherical
Collocations
5ADJ.
flat, similar, still
VERB + SPHERICAL
climbing, star
SPHERICAL + NOUN
aluminum, distribution, gaussian, plane, pod, predominance, segment, triangle
PREP.
in, into, on, unlike
ADV.
basically
Definitions
adj
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.
Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
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.
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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6The 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 migh
WiktionaryKnaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.
Wiktionarya spherical Gaussian distribution
WiktionaryThe child drew a spherical triangle.
Tatoeba · #901587The puck of ice hockey is not spherical.
Tatoeba · #923363You can eliminate a few constraints from your optimization problem if you parametrize your variables into spherical coordinates.
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