spherical
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The goal: hit all seven players on the opposing team using perfectly spherical snowballs made with a special machine, or capture their flag.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
However, traditional mathematical models usually assume these particles are perfect spheres because spherical shapes make equations easier to solve.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026
It is impossible to draw a flat, rectangular map of the spherical Earth without distortions.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
That is partly the result of viewing the spherical Earth on a flat map…
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
According to this view, any non-rotating star, however complicated its shape and internal structure, would end up after gravitational collapse as a perfectly spherical black hole, whose size would depend only on its mass.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing spherical
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Unit 2: Evolution
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