SPHERES

"SPHERES" is a plural of: sphere.

Date "SPHERES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Literature

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Order

Noun: order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo; music of the spheres.

World

Noun: world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm; music of the spheres.

Crosswords: SPHERES

And cobain can you hear the spheres (Californication; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)

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References

• The World Market for Clock and Watch Glasses, Glass for Spectacles Not Optically Worked, and Hollow Glass Spheres and Segments for Sphere Manufacture: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Juridification of Social Spheres : A Comparative Analysis in the Areas of Labor, Corporate, Anti-Trust, and Social Welfare Law (reference)

• Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (reference)

• Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America (Georgia Southern University Jack N. & Addie D. aver (reference)

• De Ludo Globi: The Game of Spheres (reference)

• Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Cylinders Cones & Spheres (reference)

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Music

• Music of the Spheres (reference)

• Spectral Spheres Cornation (reference)

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Scanning electron micrograph of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), grown in cultured lymphocytes. Virions are seen as small spheres on the surface of the cells. Credit: CDC.

The endospores of C. botulinum when stained using the Malachite Green staining method will appear as green spheres, while the bacilli themselves will turn purple in color. Credit: CDC.

"Spheres" by David Sjöstrand. From inside DPGraph, use Edit to see the equation. It is a 54th order polynomial in x, y, and z whose roots are 27 spheres.

"Six Spheres Pulsate Colors" (movie) by Joe Seale. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A, B, C, or D. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

"Spheres Tangent to Planes" by Staffan Björkenstam.

Snow on the Vacuum Spheres. Credit: NASA.

Undersea habitat assembly, cylinders and spheres withstand pressure. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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A little of Egypt and of Bohemia in the lower strata, accommodated the higher spheres, and answered the purpose of the powerful.

Before the throne was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds.

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Business

The UK market for automotive security products is relatively focussed with individual companies concentrating on their respective spheres of expertise. (references)

As a result of these efforts, a Law on the Social Protection of the Disabled was adopted in Russia in November 1995. The Law for the first time in the history of Russia laid a legal basis for the government policy to secure equal rights according to the internationally accepted standards for the disabled in civil, economic and political spheres. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

The colonial history of Kenya dates from the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the European powers first partitioned East Africa into spheres of influence. (references)

Moldova

While the CIS has activities in the political, military and economic spheres, Moldova has placed more importance on participation in economic agreements. (references)

West Bank

Under the terms of the Protocol on Economic Relations ("Paris Economic Protocol" or "Paris Agreement") signed on April 29, 1994, the PA has responsibility for key economic spheres. (references)

Human Rights

Macau

Official intrusions into these spheres must be done in accordance with the law, which requires a judge's authorization or order. (references)

Political Economy

Sri Lanka

Power in almost all spheres of public life rests with the center, but proposals to devolve power to smaller units of regional or local government are also under review. (references)

Travel

Portugal

Courtesy, in business and other spheres, is simply expected and easily extended. (references)

Women

Belize

Women have access to education and are active in all spheres of national life, but relatively few hold top managerial positions. (references)

China

The Government has made gender equality a policy objective since 1949. The Constitution states that "women enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life." The 1992 Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests provides for equality in ownership of property, inheritance rights, and access to education. (references)

Benin

The press reported that the number of girls and women undergoing FGM has decreased significantly each year since 1996. UNICEF-Benin believes that, if the trend continues, the practice could be eradicated by 2015. Although the Constitution provides for equality for women in the political, economic, and social spheres, women experience extensive societal discrimination, especially in rural areas where they occupy a subordinate role and are responsible for much of the hard labor on subsistence farms. (references)

Worker Rights

Ukraine

The Law of Collective Bargaining provides the right to collective bargaining; however, overlapping spheres of responsibility frequently impeded the collective bargaining process, and the manner in which the collective bargaining law is applied prejudices the bargaining process against independent unions and favors the official unions (affiliates of the FPU). (references)

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Expressions using "SPHERES": Crystalline spheres ♦ Harmony of the spheres ♦ music of the spheres. Additional references.

Ending with "SPHERES": geo-spheres, separation-of-spheres, value-spheres.

Danish

Nissen-kugler (Nissen spheres). (various references)

Finnish

yläilmoissa (in higher spheres). (various references)

French

... or nous voyons, au contraire, les conflits aggravés par des puissances extérieures qui profitent de l'occasion qui leur est ainsi offerte d'établir en Afrique de nouvelles zones d'influence (but instead conflicts are being aggravated by outside powers who use the opportunities provided by them to establish new spheres of influence in Africa). (various references)

German

Sphären, Bereiche (purviews, scopes). (various references)

Pig Latin

eressphay

Spanish

esferos. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "SPHERES": asthenospheres, atmospheres, bathyspheres, biospheres, chromospheres, ecospheres, enspheres, exospheres, hemispheres, hydrospheres, inspheres, ionospheres, lithospheres, magnetospheres, mesospheres, microspheres, noospheres, oospheres, ozonospheres, photospheres, planispheres, rhizospheres, stratospheres, thermospheres, tropospheres, unspheres. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SPHERES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aphareus, ephebes, phere, pheres, phers, Sephirot, Shepreth, shpere, siphers, sphare, Spheeris, spher, spheris, sphero, spuere. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: herpes, perses, reshes, sheers, speers, sphere, sprees.

-2 letters: erses, heres, peers, perse, prees, prese, press, seeps, seers, seres, sheep, sheer, speer, spree.

-3 letters: eses, here, hers, peer, pees, pehs, pree, rees, reps, resh, seep, seer, sees, sere, sers, shes.

-4 letters: ere, ers, ess, hep, her, hes, pee, peh, per, pes, ree, rep, res, see.

+1 letter: perishes, reshapes.

+2 letters: aphereses, apheresis, enspheres, inspheres, nephroses, oospheres, perhapses, pharisees, phrensies, preshapes, prewashes, protheses, rephrases, reshapers, shepherds, spheriest, spherules, unspheres.

+3 letters: aphaereses, aphaeresis, biospheres, ecospheres, elderships, euphrasies, exospheres, horsepoxes, hotpressed, hotpresses, mesosphere, noospheres, parfleshes, pearlashes, prophesies, prophetess, prostheses, reemphases, reemphasis, repolishes, semaphores, sepulchers, sepulchres, sharpeners, spearheads, superheats, superhypes, whisperers.

+4 letters: atmospheres, blasphemers, dealerships, diaphoreses, epistrophes, externships, handpresses, hemispheres, herpesvirus, hesperidins, horsepowers, houseperson, hyperspaces, hypsometers, interphases, ionospheres, leaderships, memberships, mesonephros, mesospheres, mesospheric, metaphrases, parentheses, parenthesis, paresthesia, peashooters, periphrases, perishables, powerhouses, preachiness, preharvests, prehensions, premonishes, prophesiers, readerships, replenishes, republishes, repurchases, schipperkes, sharpnesses, shepherdess, shopkeepers, speakership, spearfished, spearfishes, sphalerites, spherulites, spirochetes, spreadsheet, stepfathers, stepmothers, superheroes, supersleuth, surfperches, therapeuses, therapeusis, trusteeship, viewerships.