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# spherical

«spherical» in Mova's school dictionary: **shaped like a ball, round in every direction, like a sphere** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (spherical; more spherical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spherical means shaped like a ball, round in every direction, like a sphere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#m1)

2) In maths, a spherical object has every point on its surface the same distance from the centre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons on 3D shapes, a sphere is round like a ball; things like oranges, marbles and planets are roughly spherical. In science, raindrops, bubbles and the Earth are described as nearly spherical. It is a more formal, exact word than «round».

### examples

- A football is spherical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#x1)
- The Earth is almost spherical but a little flat at the poles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#x2)
- Bubbles are spherical because of how water pulls on itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#x3)
- Marbles are small spherical glass balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#x4)
- A circle is flat, but a ball is spherical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#x5)
- The bead was spherical with a hole through the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#x6)
- Name three spherical things in the classroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/#x7)

### note

Pronounced «SFERR-ik-ul»; spelt with «ph». «Circular» is for flat shapes (a circle), «spherical» for solid shapes (a sphere) — a common trap. In maths a sphere has 1 curved face, no edges and no vertices.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spherical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spherical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.