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Late 1970s music band
Spherical Objects were a band in the Manchester, UK-based experimental independent post-punk scene of the late 70s (including other more or less experimental
Spherical_Objects
is a list of most likely gravitationally rounded objects (GRO) of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their
List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
List_of_gravitationally_rounded_objects_of_the_Solar_System
article is a list of the largest spherical buildings in the world. In order to qualify for inclusion, the spherical construction for each entry must be
List of largest spherical buildings
List_of_largest_spherical_buildings
Humorous concept in scientific models
The spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex phenomena. Originating in theoretical physics, the metaphor
Spherical_cow
Equation for the velocity of a body in viscous fluid
gives the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects moving at very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid. It was derived
Stokes's_law
Round object
of the most familiar spherical objects to humans, the word "ball" may refer to or describe spherical or near-spherical objects. "Ball" is used metaphorically
Ball
Entertainment venue in the Las Vegas Valley, United States
feet (112 m) high and 516 feet (157 m) wide; it would be the largest spherical building on Earth, if it were not a geodesic dome. The arena cost $2.3
Sphere_(venue)
Measure of how closely a shape resembles a sphere
Sphericity is a measure of how closely the shape of a physical object resembles that of a perfect sphere. For example, the sphericity of the balls inside
Sphericity
Mirror with a curved reflecting surface
non-spherical type are parabolic reflectors, found in optical devices such as reflecting telescopes that need to image distant objects, since spherical mirror
Curved_mirror
Radius of a circle or sphere equivalent to a non-circular or non-spherical object
with the same perimeter, area, or volume of a non-circular or non-spherical object. The equivalent diameter (or mean diameter) ( D {\displaystyle D} )
Equivalent_radius
Branch of astronomy about the celestial sphere
Spherical astronomy, or positional astronomy, is a branch of observational astronomy used to locate astronomical objects on the celestial sphere, as seen
Spherical_astronomy
Christian symbol of authority
a symbol since antiquity. To citizens of the Roman Empire, the plain spherical globe held by the god Jupiter represented the world or the universe, as
Globus_cruciger
Ball used in the sport of tennis
A tennis ball is a small, hollow ball used in games of tennis and real tennis. Tennis balls are fluorescent yellow in professional competitions, but in
Tennis_ball
Atmospheric electrical phenomenon
lightning is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters (yards) in diameter. Though
Ball_lightning
Optical aberration
In optics, spherical aberration is a type of aberration found in optical systems that have elements with spherical surfaces. This phenomenon commonly
Spherical_aberration
Potential energy of two interacting objects as a function of their distance
mechanics naturally have this form for simple spherical objects. For other types of more complex interactions or objects it is useful and common to approximate
Pair_potential
Stone-like balls in Irish legend
identified one as being better preserved. William Frederick Wakeman also found objects he ascribed to be 'brain balls' in a tomb in Old Connacht, Bray. Wakemen
Brain_balls
Spherical object used in association football
ball is the ball used in the sport of association football. The ball's spherical shape, as well as its size, mass, and material composition, are specified
Ball_(association_football)
Micronation in Vienna, Austria
officially the Republic of Kugelmugel (German: Republik Kugelmugel), is a spherical art object located in Vienna, Austria. It came about as the result of the artist
Kugelmugel
Approximation of the figure of Earth as a sphere
Spherical Earth or Earth's curvature refers to the approximation of the figure of the Earth as a sphere. The earliest documented mention of the concept
Spherical_Earth
Stained glass globe in Massachusetts, US
the equator, you really have to strain your neck to see them. The hard spherical surface of the globe reflects sound and produces striking acoustical effects
Mapparium
Diameter of a sphere of the same volume as an irregularly-shaped subject
The equivalent spherical diameter of an irregularly shaped object is the diameter of a sphere of equivalent geometric, optical, electrical, aerodynamic
Equivalent_spherical_diameter
Spherical man-made artifact composed of stone
(petra), "stone", and σφαῖρα (sphaira), "ball") is the name for any spherical man-made object of any size that is composed of stone. These mainly prehistoric
Stone_ball
known objects of the Solar System and partial lists of smaller objects by observed mean radius. These lists can be sorted according to an object's radius
List of Solar System objects by size
List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size
Distance between the centers of externally tangent objects
of their radii. For non-spherical objects, the distance of closest approach is a function of the orientation of the objects, and its calculation can
Distance_of_closest_approach
Spherical object made from compacted snow
A snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands and pressing the snow together to compact it into a ball
Snowball
Multiple proofs regarding Earth's approximately spherical shape
valleys or volcanos), the ground itself would never obscure distant objects. A spherical surface has a horizon which is closer when viewed from a lower altitude
Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth
Empirical_evidence_for_the_spherical_shape_of_Earth
Measure for the size of planets and other Solar System objects
{\displaystyle D} ), which is twice the mean radius, is also used. For a non-spherical object, the mean radius (denoted R {\displaystyle R} or r {\displaystyle r}
Mean_radius_(astronomy)
How large a sphere or circle appears
difference with the case of a perpendicular circle is significant only for spherical objects of large angular diameter, since the following small-angle approximations
Angular_diameter
Small spherical toy
A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. These toys can be used for a variety of games called marbles
Marble_(toy)
Coordinates comprising a distance and two angles
In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system specifies a given point in three-dimensional space by using a distance and two angles as its three coordinates
Spherical_coordinate_system
Type of isolating electrical transformer
interlocking rings are the primary and secondary transformer windings. The spherical objects directly below and to the right of the windings are a spark ball gap
Austin_transformer
Sphere with mirrored facets that rotates
disco ball (also known as a mirror ball or glitter ball) is a roughly spherical object that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a
Disco_ball
Disruption of heart rhythm from a blow
ventricular fibrillation upon impact in preliminary research – whereas spherical objects with smaller radii were more likely to induce ventricular fibrillation
Commotio_cordis
Set of points equidistant from a center
Hemisphere Octant of a sphere Spherical cap Spherical lune Spherical polygon Spherical sector Spherical segment Spherical wedge Spherical zone 3-sphere Affine
Sphere
Topics referred to by the same term
to: The globe, an alternative name for Earth Any other spherical or roughly spherical object, such as a crystal ball Globe Building (disambiguation)
Globe_(disambiguation)
Natural physical entity in space
consist of multiple bodies or even other objects with substructures. Some examples of astronomical objects include planetary systems, star clusters,
Astronomical_object
Highest velocity attainable by a falling object
gravity (FG) acting on the object. Since the net force on the object is zero, the object has zero acceleration. For objects falling through air at normal
Terminal_velocity
Geometric pattern
spiral shell, terminating in the aperture. A spindle whorl is a disc or spherical object fitted onto the spindle to increase and maintain the speed of the spin
Whorl
Optical device which transmits and refracts light
medium (the medium other than the spherical surface material), u {\textstyle u} is the on-axis (on the optical axis) object distance from the line perpendicular
Lens
Disproven hypothesis
planet comes from gravity. Massive objects tend to clump together gravitationally, creating non-hollow spherical objects such as stars and planets. The solid
Hollow_Earth
Ratio of inertial to viscous forces acting on a liquid
generally used today. Other shapes such as rectangular pipes or non-spherical objects have an equivalent diameter defined. For fluids of variable density
Reynolds_number
Spike used for spinning fibers into yarn
weighted at either the bottom, middle, or top, commonly by a disc or spherical object called a whorl; many spindles, however, are weighted simply by thickening
Spindle_(textiles)
2007 video game
that many medieval paintings of royalty and other leaders holding spherical objects similar to globus cruciger which represented power and control, and
Assassin's_Creed_(video_game)
Measure in 3-dimensional geometry
the object or its directional extent. For example, a spherical cap and a spherical lune may subtend the same solid angle (or have the same spherical area
Solid_angle
Retarding force on a body moving in a fluid
a given b {\displaystyle b} , denser objects fall more quickly. For the special case of small spherical objects moving slowly through a viscous fluid
Drag_(physics)
Motion of a body subject only to gravity
denoted g {\displaystyle g} . Since all objects fall at the same rate in the absence of other forces, objects and people will experience weightlessness
Free_fall
Unit of measurement
be measured in various ways, and because the sun is not a perfectly spherical object itself, and thus the actual radius varies depending on the point(s)
Solar_radius
Family of solutions to related differential equations
solutions are called spherical Bessel functions and are used in spherical systems, such as in solving the Helmholtz equation in spherical coordinates. Bessel's
Bessel_function
Conceptual tool in astronomy
to remain still. For purposes of spherical astronomy, which is concerned only with the directions to celestial objects, it makes no difference if this
Celestial_sphere
Geometric object
four-dimensional geometry, the spherinder, or spherical cylinder or spherical prism, is a geometric object, defined as the Cartesian product of a 3-ball
Spherinder
Section of a sphere
In geometry, a spherical cap or spherical dome is a portion of a sphere or of a ball cut off by a plane. It is also a spherical segment of one base, i
Spherical_cap
Idealised model of a particle in physics
theory of gravity, extended objects can behave as point-like masses even in their immediate vicinity. For example, spherical objects interacting in 3-dimensional
Point_particle
Physicist and intelligence officer
that spherical objects account for the largest proportion — nearly half — of all UAP reports received by his office, and that some of these objects are
Sean_M._Kirkpatrick
Weighted object fitted to a spindle
weighted object fitted to a spindle to help maintain the spindle's speed of rotation while spinning yarn. A spindle whorl may be a disk or spherical object. It
Spindle_whorl
Coordinate system for the Schwarzschild geometry
to spacetime around a spherical object, but in that case do not give a description of spacetime inside the radius of the object. Spacetime in a region
Kruskal–Szekeres_coordinates
Love (2001) by Cecily Gould is also based on the legend. A song by Spherical Objects titled "Lucy" was inspired by the legend. It appeared in the 1979
Lucy_Lightfoot
still controversial. The term refers to reports of luminous, usually spherical objects which vary from pea-sized to several metres in diameter. It is sometimes
List_of_lightning_phenomena
Property of a planar object which maps onto itself after rotation by any angle
has spherical symmetry in one 3-space, and circular symmetry in the orthogonal direction. An analogous 3-dimensional equivalent term is spherical symmetry
Circular_symmetry
Equation for the drag on a sphere in high Knudsen-number flow
may apply, for example, to sub-micron droplets in air, or to larger spherical objects moving in gases more rarefied than air at standard temperature and
Epstein_drag
Radio telescope in Guizhou, China
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope
Topics referred to by the same term
partner's mouth after oral sex Snowball (disambiguation) Snowball, a spherical object made from snow This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
Snowballing
Casting technique that is typically used to cast thin-walled cylinders
months. Centrifugal casting is also commonly used to shape glass into spherical objects such as marbles.[citation needed] Cylinders and shapes with rotational
Centrifugal casting (industrial)
Centrifugal_casting_(industrial)
2000 video game
dungeons. Atla, which are present in most dungeon levels, are large spherical objects which can be retrieved by Toan only. When Atla are removed from the
Dark_Cloud
Directional planes
horizontal take on yet another meaning. On the surface of a smoothly spherical, homogenous, non-rotating planet, the plumb bob picks out as vertical
Vertical_and_horizontal
Topics referred to by the same term
within its orbital plane. Nodal precession, where non-spherical objects cause orbiting objects to change their orbits. Not to be confused with: Axial
Orbital_precession
World records for varieties of juggling
each object is thrown and caught more than once the term used is a 'qualify'. Balls, which include beanbags, must be roughly spherical objects. Clubs
Juggling_world_records
Goethals, and Seidel, although these objects were understood as particular examples of cubature formulas earlier. Spherical designs can be of value in approximation
Spherical_design
Type of electron microscope
of cardiovascular calcification, showing in orange a calcium phosphate spherical particle (denser material) and, in green, the extracellular matrix (less
Scanning_electron_microscope
type A and conjectured that combinatorial objects consisting of "homogeneous spherical data" classify spherical subgroups. This is known as the Luna Conjecture
Spherical_variety
2024 studio album by the Smashing Pumpkins
collaborator Katelan Foisy. It features a black-and-white picture of a spherical object in the foreground, with two white lines of decreasing vertical distance
Aghori_Mhori_Mei
Problems which attempt to find the most efficient way to pack objects into containers
attempting to pack objects together into containers. The goal is to either pack a single container as densely as possible or pack all objects using as few containers
Packing_problems
Adages and sayings named after a person
Stokes's law is an expression for the frictional force exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers, named for George Gabriel Stokes
List of laws named after people
List_of_laws_named_after_people
Topics referred to by the same term
ball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bowling ball is a hard spherical object used in the sport of bowling. Bowling ball may also refer to: Bowling
Bowling_ball_(disambiguation)
Type of digital printer
ink. Flatbed printers have sometimes been used to print on small spherical objects such as ping pong balls, however, the print resolution tends to decrease
Flatbed_digital_printer
Suspension of objects using sound waves
than wavelength objects are levitated by generating a field which is tailored to the levitated object's size and shape. This allows objects larger than the
Acoustic_levitation
Distant planetesimals in the Solar System
Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and the detached objects—three nearer reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects. Both regions lie well beyond the heliosphere
Oort_cloud
British mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
expression for the frictional force (also called drag force) exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers. Stokes' work is the basis of the
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir_George_Stokes,_1st_Baronet
Natural nodule-like rock concretions
Klerksdorp spheres are small objects, often spherical to disc-shaped, that have been collected by miners and rockhounds from 3-billion-year-old pyrophyllite
Klerksdorp_sphere
Transparent dry-erase sphere used to teach spherical geometry
objects on a sphere, and comparing spherical geometry to Euclidean geometry as drawn on a flat piece of paper or blackboard. The included spherical ruler
Lénárt_sphere
1987 novel by Michael Crichton
spacecraft. In a large cargo hold, the team discovers a mysterious spherical object that is clearly of extra-terrestrial origin. Reasoning the ship's future
Sphere_(novel)
Class of stony meteorites made of round grains
present in chondrites are the enigmatic chondrules, millimetre-sized spherical objects that originated as freely floating, molten or partially molten droplets
Chondrite
Extraterrestrial view of outer space
sphere. For practical use, the distinction is significant only for spherical objects that are relatively close, since the small-angle approximation holds
Extraterrestrial_sky
Spherical lens
an optical lens in the shape of a sphere. Formally, it is a bi-convex spherical lens with the same radius of curvature on both sides, and diameter equal
Ball_lens
Topics referred to by the same term
A disco ball is a rotating spherical object covered by many mirrored facets, usually illuminated by spotlights to create a complex display. Disco ball
Disco_ball_(disambiguation)
2011 film by Chris Gorak
a Militsiya police car, an alien appears as an invisible, shifting spherical object. They hide as it moves closer, causing the car's lights and siren to
The_Darkest_Hour_(film)
Scientific instrument used to measure viscosity
expression for the frictional force (also called drag force) exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers (e.g., very small particles) in a
Viscometer
Moon of Uranus
about Rosalind. In Voyager 2 imagery, Rosalind appears as an almost spherical object, though the Hubble Space Telescope observed its light curve to vary
Rosalind_(moon)
1996 video game
initially control Claris or Elliot, who immediately have their Ideyas (spherical objects that contain emotions) of hope, wisdom, intelligence and purity stolen
Nights_into_Dreams
Swedish physicist
correction to Stokes' law for the friction on spherical objects in a viscous fluid, valid in the case when the object moves close to a wall of the container
Hilding_Faxén
such as spontaneously changing outfits, teleport people and objects or making inanimate objects move while the wand is active. Wing (ウィング, Wingu) Wing is
List_of_Gachiakuta_characters
US fighter jet display videos
recorded on 15 July 2019, aboard the USS Omaha, purportedly shows a spherical object flying over the ocean as seen through an infrared camera at night,
Pentagon_UFO_videos
Physical constant for the strength of gravity induced by a mass
}}^{-1}.} In orbital mechanics, the period P of an object in circular orbit around a spherical object obeys G M = 3 π V P 2 , {\displaystyle GM={\frac {3\pi
Gravitational_constant
Street Fighter character
battered Decapre's eyes while sitting down on his throne behind a massive spherical object before burning a chess piece with his Psycho Power and proclaiming
M._Bison
Ordered array of colloidal particles
theoretical work on the condensed phases of non-spherical objects. Assembly of crystals from non-spherical colloids can also be directed via the use of electric
Colloidal_crystal
Perimeter of a circle or ellipse
radius – Radius of a circle or sphere equivalent to a non-circular or non-spherical objectPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets The Greek letter
Circumference
Small copper alloy object
Since the first known example was recorded in 1739, over one hundred such objects have been discovered, dating from the 2nd to the 4th centuries AD. Their
Roman_dodecahedron
1991 video game
It was released only in Japan. It is an object elimination type puzzle game. A player controls a spherical jewel and jumps from tile to tile. Stepping
Egypt_(1991_video_game)
Area of the Solar System beyond the planets, comprising small bodies
mostly spherical. The objects within the Kuiper belt, together with the members of the scattered disc and any potential Hills cloud or Oort cloud objects, are
Kuiper_belt
Irregular moon of Neptune
Nereid. Telescope observations indicate that Halimede is a gray, non-spherical object with a diameter between 42 and 62 km (26 and 39 mi). Its color is similar
Halimede_(moon)
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Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : occupational name for a maker of glass objects, Old French verrie(o)r (from verre, voir(r)e ‘glass’, Latin vitrum).
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : from the Old French personal name Reinger, Rainger, composed of the Germanic elements ragin ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ + gÄr, gÄ“r ‘spear’, ‘lance’.English : occupational name for a maker of rings (see Ring 1) or for a bell ringer, from Middle English ring(en) ‘to ring’, Old English hringan.German : occupational name for a turner, someone who made objects by rotating them on a lathe or wheel.
Male
Norse
Norse myth name of a dwarf who, along with his brother Brökk, made magical objects for the gods, including the hammer of Thor.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a maker of dowels and similar objects, from an agent derivative of Middle English dowle ‘dowel’, ‘headless peg’, ‘bolt’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a foolish or eccentric person, from a diminutive of Foll, from Old French fol ‘mad’, ‘stupid’ (Late Latin follis, originally a noun denoting any of various objects filled with air, but later transferred to vain and empty-headed notions).
Male
Norse
Old Norse myth name of a dwarf who, along with his brother Eitri, made magical objects for the gods, including the hammer of Thor, probably derived from the Nordic element bróka, BRÖKK means "breeches."
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Dutch
English, German, and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a maker of rings (from Middle English ring, Middle High German rinc, Middle Dutch ring), either to be worn as jewelry or as component parts of chain-mail, harnesses, and other objects. In part it may also have arisen as a nickname for a wearer of a ring.Scandinavian : from ring ‘ring’, probably an ornamental name but possibly applied in the same sense as 3 or 1.German : topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rink, rinc ‘circle’.Irish (eastern County Cork) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Rinn (see Reen).
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
The Sun is the Star at the Centre of the Solar System; It is Almost Perfectly Spherical and Consists of Hot Plasma Interwoven with Magnetic Fields; Sun
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a maker of objects of wood, metal, or bone by turning on a lathe, from Anglo-Norman French torner (Old French tornier, Latin tornarius, a derivative of tornus ‘lathe’). The surname may also derive from any of various other senses of Middle English turn, for example a turnspit, a translator or interpreter, or a tumbler.English : nickname for a fast runner, from Middle English turnen ‘to turn’ + ‘hare’.English : occupational name for an official in charge of a tournament, Old French tornei (in origin akin to 1).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place called Turno or Turna, in Poland and Belarus, or from the city of Tarnów (Yiddish Turne) in Poland.Translated or Americanized form of any of various other like-meaning or like-sounding Jewish surnames.South German (T(h)ürner) : occupational name for a guard in a tower or a topographic name from Middle High German turn ‘tower’, or a habitational name for someone from any of various places named Thurn, for example in Austria.
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n.
A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
a.
See Spheroidal.
n.
The eye, as luminous and spherical.
n.
The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.
a.
Round; circular; spherical.
n.
A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.
a.
Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.
a.
Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular.
adv.
Spherically.
a.
Alt. of Spheric
a.
Round; spherical; starlike.
v. t.
To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.
a.
Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.
a.
Spherical.
n.
Freedom from spherical aberration.
a.
Alt. of Schetical
a.
Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
a.
Having the form of a globe; spherical.
a.
Exactly spherical; globular.
a.
Globular; spherical; orbicular.
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