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sphere
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What does sphere mean?
noun
- A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .
- An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere; a round object, a ball.
- An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
More meanings (9)
noun
- (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
- The natural, normal, or proper place (of something).
- The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .
- A food preparation comprising a flavorful liquid treated by spherification to produce spheres.
- (archaic) The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.
- (historical) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres).
- (dated) The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.
verb
- To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
- To make round or spherical; to perfect.
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Before Mr. Dimmesdale reached home, his inner man gave him other evidences of a revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling.
If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union.
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The supposed victim is generally made a man of mark by persecution, and advanced to a higher and wider sphere of usefulness.
Every year this Virgin of the Sphere as she appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice gave birth to the sun.
An hour later, and a moon nearly full--not a pale, flat disc, but a radiant sphere--has wheeled up into the flushed sky.