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Main Entry:	sphere [sfeer] Show IPA/sfɪər/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	globular object
Synonyms:	Earth, apple, ball, big blue marble, circle, globe, globule, orb, pellet, pill, planet, rondure, round

Main Entry:	area
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	extent, scope of a surface
Synonyms:	breadth, compass, distance, expanse, field, operation, range, size, space, sphere, stretch, width

Main Entry:	area
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	region, district
Synonyms:	belt, block, city, county, division, domain, dominion, enclosure, field, kingdom, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, parcel, patch, plot, precinct, principality, quarter, section, sector, sphere, square, state, stretch, territory, township, tract, turf, vicinity, ward, zone

Example Sentences

Oceanographers say the new sphere will help open the sea's depths.

What happened to our thread discussing the role of the academy in the public sphere.

Theory suggests that this cloud should be an almost perfect sphere.

Oceanographers say the new sphere will help open the sea's depths.

What happened to our thread discussing the role of the academy in the public sphere.

Theory suggests that this cloud should be an almost perfect sphere.

People have reported seeing ball lightning-a rare phenomenon that resembles a glowing sphere of electricity-for hundreds of years.

Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid-a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

Water drops are usually ellipsoidal in shape and are less able than a sphere to concentrate light.

There would be no excitement to owning a death sphere if it didn't have a vulnerable opening.

On it, he welds small sections of pipe to embed in the surface of a bronze sphere.

We have scrubbed the public sphere so clean, it is sometimes useful to get a dose of non-euphemized reality.

Because the earth spins, it is not a perfect sphere.

In fact, many mathematicians have contemplated sphere packing.

The outer sphere has six domes, each color-coded to match one of the marbles.

It hypothesizes that any three-dimensional space without holes is essentially a sphere.

The public sphere of museum education demands a high level of energy.

The work is high-profile and steady, and it translates nicely into the commercial sphere.

The freedom that qubits have to roam across the entire sphere helps to give quantum computers their unique capabilities.

Now imagine a moon apple: a hollow sphere of lunar light.

First, we're rapidly losing our sense of the public sphere.

With the prospects for the armed struggle looking poor, new attention is likely to turn to the political sphere.

Everything should either be reflected back into the sphere or absorbed in the density.

In film criticism, the blogosphere is the true sphere of influence.

Its appearance in the public sphere has been nothing short of earth-shaking.

Each sphere must be perfect, or the motion it facilitates will come to a grinding halt.

Just because it may not fit into our current sphere of understanding, doesn't mean it doesn't or can't exist.

They were then shown a cube and a sphere and asked which was which.

Earth is located at the center of this celestial sphere.

Topics include poetry as a vehicle for women's participation in the public sphere.

The first is that a healthy democracy requires a vibrant sphere of public political debate.

The collapsing force collapses in as a sphere and the frame of reference is at the equator.

Satellite measurements, for instance, have shown precisely how the earth's shape differs from a perfect sphere.

There is a looming shortage of librarians, although more in the public sphere than the academic.

Each sphere would provide a five megawatt turbine with four hours of storage capacity.

Each sensillum consists of a little sphere which is made of the same hard skin material that covers the beetle's outer shell.

The sound, mildly annoying and profoundly unnerving, was beamed to earth from a small metal sphere called.

The instant the hot sphere reaches the critical temperature is marked an explosion of tiny bubbles.

The growth of such property dramatically extends the private police's sphere of activity.

The shiny metal sphere stands in contrast to the dozens of angular red follies that dot the.

The objective is to move the balls from the inner sphere into their matching colored slots in the outer sphere.

The sphere was able to reach the moon's surface because there is little or no atmosphere that would produce friction and burn it.

Here, sharks and dolphins herd schooling prey into a whirling sphere near the surface called a bait ball.

Others spew their illumination in a sphere of light, wasting it.

No, sometimes you need a three-story-tall aluminum sphere with a catwalk running through.

Like straight lines in ordinary space, great circles on a sphere contain the shortest paths between any two points.

Russia asks for its exclusive sphere of influence and it is close to achieve this goal.

Satelllite imagery viewed through a magnifying crystal sphere turns even.

The implications for the last great kingdom in that sphere of influence were clear.

But his contributions to the scientific sphere were equally impressive.

In that sphere of activity he was not only a conspicuous figure, he was a man.

Things don't seem to be improving much in this sphere.

The jets are ejecting knots of gas and dust from a sphere of material surrounding the still-forming star.

No, sometimes you need a three-story-tall aluminum sphere with a catwalk.

Slotin stopped the chain reaction by knocking the sphere apart.

The comment here by doublehelix is exactly why a discussion of religious beliefs in the public sphere never amounts to anything.

Being fruitful, they multiply into a ball of many cells, a shimmering sphere of human potential.

The adaptation of sphere is fascinating and universal.

The instant the hot sphere reaches the critical temperature is marked an explosion.

Wordy expatiations in regard to that lofty sphere to which art carries an emotional devotee.

But the restaurant on top of the sphere closed two months ago for lack of business.

In my humble opinion, the next big push will likely be required in the political sphere rather than in the economic sphere.

In this advanced type of bomb, a sphere of nuclear material is compressed inward at the core to cause an explosion.

On theoretical grounds, there are many reasons to doubt this premise: a collapsing sphere is highly unstable.

Suddenly, with a final nudge, one sphere would gulp the other.

But game-theory software can also work well outside the sphere of economics.

Part of the sphere can be beyond the top of the slope and an iet may occur over the top on the other side.

But it is in the economic sphere that emotionally charged opinions matter most.

Russia should stop building more and more armaments and searching for trouble in it's self-styled sphere of interest.

I've also heard of a hypothesis that states that a large impact to a sphere transfers forces to the polar opposite location.

The states can be represented by an arrow pointing to a location on a sphere.

So these loaded terms have an unestablished first cause which forever puts them outside the sphere of science.

You'd get more protection from a football helmet than the entire planet's magnetic sphere.

Main Entry:	arena
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	area of activity
Synonyms:	battlefield, battleground, domain, field, province, realm, scene, sector, sphere, territory, theatre

Main Entry:	caste
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	social class
Synonyms:	cultural level, degree, estate, grade, lineage, order, position, race, rank, social order, species, sphere, standing, station, status, stratum

Main Entry:	circle
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	orb, loop, round figure
Synonyms:	amphitheater, aureole, band, belt, bowl, bracelet, circlet, circuit, circumference, circus, cirque, coil, colure, compass, cordon, corona, crown, cycle, disc, disk, ecliptic, enclosure, equator, full turn, globe, halo, hoop, horizon, lap, meridian, orbit, parallel of latitude, perimeter, periphery, record, revolution, ring, ringlet, round, sphere, stadium, tire, turn, vortex, wheel, wreath, zodiac

Main Entry:	circumstances
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	state of affairs in one's life
Synonyms:	assets, capital, chances, class, command, degree, dowry, financial status, footing, income, lifestyle, lot, means, net worth, outlook, position, precedence, prestige, property, prospects, prosperity, rank, rating, resources, situation, sphere, standing, state, station, status, substance, times, way of life, worldly goods

Main Entry:	class
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	kind, sort, category
Synonyms:	branch, brand, breed, cast, caste, character, classification, collection, color, degree, denomination, department, description, designation, distinction, division, domain, estate, family, feather, frame, genre, genus, grade, grain, grouping, hierarchy, humor, ilk, kidney, league, make, mold, name, nature, order, origin, property, province, quality, range, rank, rate, school, sect, section, selection, set, source, species, sphere, standing, status, stripe, style, suit, temperament, value, variety

Main Entry:	class
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	societal group, background
Synonyms:	ancestry, birth, bourgeoisie, breed, caliber, caste, circle, clan, clique, club, company, condition, connection, coterie, cultural level, degree, derivation, descent, estate, extraction, family, genealogy, grade, hierarchy, influence, intelligentsia, league, lineage, moiety, nobility, origin, pecking order, pedigree, pigeonhole, place, position, prestige, quality, sect, social rank, source, sphere, standing, state, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, the right stuff, tier, title

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