Spherical vs Disc - What's the difference?
spherical | disc |
(label) Shaped like a sphere.
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, 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
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
An .
Something resembling a disc.
A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
As an adjective spherical
is shaped like a sphere.As a noun disc is
a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.spherical
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(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.
Synonyms
* (shaped like a sphere) globular, orbicular, roundDerived terms
* spherical aberration * spherical angle * spherical cap * spherical distance * spherical geometry * sphericality * spherical lune * spherical sector * spherical segment * spherical triangle * spherical trigonometry * spherical wedge * sphericityExternal links
* * *disc
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(wikipedia disc)Alternative forms
* disk mainly US, or for magnetic media. See .Noun
(en noun)- A coin is a disc of metal.
- Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
- Turn the disc over, after it has finished.