💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Planisphere"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| small circlenoun | a circle formed by a plane that cuts a sphere not through its centre |
| spherical capnoun | (geometry) A portion of the surface of a sphere cut off by a plane. |
| hemispherenoun | (geography) Half of the Earth, such as the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere or Eastern Hemisphere, Land Hemisphere, Water Hemisphere etc. . |
| segmentnoun | One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion. |
| 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. |
| sphaerenoun | Obsolete form of sphere. [(mathematics) A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .] |
| sphærenoun | Archaic spelling of sphere. [(mathematics) A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .] |
| nonspherenoun | A shape or object other than a sphere. |
| great circlenoun | A segment of such circle representing the shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere. |
| planigonnoun | (geometry) A convex polygon that can fill the plane with only copies of itself. |
| halfspherenoun | (geometry) hemisphere |
| globoidnoun | (mathematics) A spherical representation or projection of a sphere or ellipsoid. |
| zonenoun | Any given region or area of the world. |
| circumspherenoun | (geometry) A sphere that is circumscribed about a polyhedron and touches each of its vertices |
| superplanenoun | (informal) A very large or technologically sophisticated aeroplane. |
| globenoun | The planet Earth. |
| plane of symmetrynoun | (geometry) A plane about which a geometric figure is symmetric (by reflection) |
| plane geometrynoun | The study of figures having parts that lie in a singular plane. |
| planetscapenoun | The landscape of the surface of a planet. |
| radical planenoun | (mathematics) The plane containing the circle formed by the intersection of two spheres (or whose points have equal power with respect to two non-intersecting spheres) |
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