Spherical vs Glomerate - What's the difference?
spherical | glomerate |
(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
To gather or wind into a ball; to collect (threads, etc.) into a spherical form or mass.
Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
As adjectives the difference between spherical and glomerate
is that spherical is (label) shaped like a sphere while glomerate is gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.As a verb glomerate is
to gather or wind into a ball; to collect (threads, etc) into a spherical form or mass.spherical
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* (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.