Spherical vs Biomorphism - What's the difference?
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(label) Shaped like a sphere.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (label) (no comparative or superlative ) Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
(label) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
(label) Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
*1606 : (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act 1, Scene 2
(arts) A surrealist art movement of the twentieth century that focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology.
As an adjective spherical
is (label) shaped like a sphere.As a noun biomorphism is
(arts) a surrealist art movement of the twentieth century that focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology.spherical
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(en adjective)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
- Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.