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Spherical vs Spanning - What's the difference?

spherical | spanning |

As an adjective spherical

is (label) shaped like a sphere.

As a noun spanning is

a tension.

spherical

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

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.

    Synonyms

    * (shaped like a sphere) globular, orbicular, round

    Derived terms

    * spherical aberration * spherical angle * spherical cap * spherical distance * spherical geometry * sphericality * spherical lune * spherical sector * spherical segment * spherical triangle * spherical trigonometry * spherical wedge * sphericity

    spanning

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something is spanned.
  • * 1996 , Peter Evans, The music of Benjamin Britten
  • The immediate symbolism of these spannings of musical space is evident, but they also contain references to the work's musical motto...
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