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spherical(geometry) Shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.
leukodystrophynoun(medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
hyperellipsoidnoun(geometry) A figure, related to the hypersphere, having ellipsoidal rather than spherical symmetry
ellipsoidnoun(mathematics, geometry) A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is a quadric with equation x²/a² + y²/b² + z²/c² = 1.
globenounThe planet Earth.
elliptoidMisspelling of ellipsoid. [(mathematics, geometry) A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is a quadric with equation x²/a² + y²/b² + z²/c² = 1.]
glomenoun(geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.
sphericsnoun(mathematics) The geometry and trigonometry of the surface of a sphere.
spherical geometrynoun(geometry, uncountable) The geometry of the 2-dimensional surface of a sphere;
oblatumnoun(geometry) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis.
ellipsoid of revolutionnoun(geometry) A spheroid; a solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about one of its axes.
spherical conenoun(geometry) A cone with a spherical base.
geodesicOf or relating to a geodesic dome.
stereographic projectionnoun(projective geometry, complex analysis, cartography) A function that maps a sphere onto a plane; especially, the map generated by projecting each point of the sphere from the sphere's (designated) north pole to a point on the plane tangent to the south pole.
spheroidnounA solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.
focaloidnoun(geometry) A shell bounded by two concentric, confocal ellipses (in two dimensions) or ellipsoids (in three dimensions).
oloidnoun(geometry) A three-dimensional curved geometric object, the convex hull of a skeletal frame made by placing two linked congruent circles in perpendicular planes, so that the center of each circle lies on the other circle.
ballnounA solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
sphericalitynounSphericity.
sphericalizationnounConversion to a spherical form

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