Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) Shaped like a sphere.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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.}}

(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

Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.