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Definition: Sphere |
SphereNoun1. A particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit". 2. Any spherically shaped artifact. 3. The geographical area in which one nation is very influential. 4. A particular aspect of life or activity; "he was helpless in an important sector of his life". 5. A solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses). 6. A three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center. 7. The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sphere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Transportation | Characteristic apparent shape of topmark internationally recognised for the lateral system of marking or buoyage. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A sphere is, roughly speaking, a ball-shaped object. In mathematics, a sphere is a quadric consisting only of a surface and is therefore hollow. In non-mathematical usage a sphere is often considered to be solid; mathematicians call this the interior of the sphere.
More precisely, a sphere is the set of points in 3-dimensional Euclidean space which are at distance r from a fixed point of that space, where r is a positive real number called the radius of the sphere.
In coordinate geometry a sphere with centre (x0, y0, z0) and radius r is the set of all points (x,y,z) such that
The points on the sphere with radius r and center at the origin can be parametrized via
- (x - x0)2 + (y - y0)2 + (z - z0)2 = r2
(see trigonometric functions and spherical coordinates).
- x = r cos(φ) sin(θ)
- y = r sin(φ) sin(θ) (0 ≤ θ < π and -π < φ ≤ π)
- z = r cos(θ)
The surface area of a sphere of radius r is 4πr2, and its volume is 4πr3/3. The sphere has the smallest surface area among all surfaces enclosing a given volume and it encloses the largest volume among all closed surfaces with a given surface area. For this reason, the sphere appears in nature: for instance bubbles and water drops (in the absence of gravity) are spheres because the surface tension tries to minimize surface area.
The circumscribed cylinder for a given sphere has a volume which is 3/2 times the volume of the sphere. This fact, along with the volume and surface formulas given above, was already known to Archimedes.
A sphere can also be defined as the surface formed by rotating a circle about its diameter. If the circle is replaced by an ellipse, the shape becomes a spheroid.
Spheres can be generalized to other dimensions. For any natural number n, an n-sphere is the set of points in (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space which are at distance r from a fixed point of that space, where r is, as before, a positive real number. A 2-sphere is therefore an ordinary sphere, while a 1-sphere is a circle and a 0-sphere is a pair of points. The n-sphere of unit radius centered at the origin is denoted Sn and is often referred to as "the" n-sphere.
An n-sphere is an example of a compact n-manifold.
See also
- 3-sphere
- hypersphere
- ball (mathematics)
Sphere Books was a British paperback publisher of the 1960s - 1980s.
Sphere is the name of a book written by Michael Crichton, which was subsequently turned into a movie by the same name.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sphere."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SPHERe | English | Social and Public Health Economics Research Group | Medicine |
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Synonyms: SphereSynonyms: area (n), arena (n), celestial sphere (n), domain (n), empyrean (n), field (n), firmament (n), heavens (n), orbit (n), sector (n), sphere of influence (n), vault of heaven (n), welkin (n). (additional references) |
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Business | Part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career. |
Circularity | Sphere. |
Degree | Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort. |
Distance | Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to. |
Measurement | Astrolabe, armillary sphere. |
Property | Territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence. |
Region | Noun: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale; (limit); compartment, department; clearing. |
Rotundity | Verb: render spherical;Adjective: form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a ball; give rotundity; Noun: round. |
Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution). | |
Space | Spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage, margin; opening, sphere, arena. |
World | Noun: world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm; music of the spheres. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Our beryllium sphere is is wire with plaster around it. And our digital conveyor is it's Christmas tree lights (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) The daggon sphere! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) When Buffy first met Glory she found that magical glowy sphere that was meant to repel Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Our Lady of the Sphere (1969) | |
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 | The earliest visible stage of HIV replication occurs when viral proteins accumulate under the cell membrane in a process called budding (a). In the next stage a crescent shaped early bud has constricted, forming a membrane-encapsulated sphere, with the dense center called a viral nucleoid (b). As the constricting process continues, the virus pinches off and becomes free extracellular infectious virus (c). At this stage, the dark circular mucleoid condenses into a bar; this morphologic feature is used to discriminate HIV-I from HTLV-II and HTLV-III. See artwork: GR-31. Credit: Dr. Matthew Gonda (photographer). |  | "Four Point Sphere" by Martin Levenius. To vary the X, Y, and Z coordinates of one of the points, use the Scrollbar to vary A, B, and C. |
 | "Sphere With Axes" by Yehia Muhsen. Click on Edit inside DPGraph to see how to draw axes as zero diameter tubes. |  | "Surreal Sphere to Sphere" by Lennart Agborn. Use the Scrollbar to vary A. The graph initially comes up blank; you must vary A to see it. |
 | "Sphere Tangent To Planes" by Staffan Björkenstam. Use the Scrollbar to vary A, B, C, and D. |  | Mar. Resources Lab entry lock is an acryllic sphere. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | JOHNSON-SEA-LINK's six inch thick acryllic sphere holds pilot and observer. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | MIR during recovery-- sphere is made of high strength steel made in Finland. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | DEEP ROVER is a one person sub with an acryllic sphere. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Figure 26. Effects of pressure on different types of hollow tubes as studied by John Young Buchanan, both during his experiences on the CHALLENGER expedition and with Prince Albert I of Monaco on the PRINCESS ALICE II in 1902. Buchanan published his study of hyperpressure effects in 1903. The brass tube, copper sphere, and debris from a Portier and Richard bottle were all studied in 1902. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Flower in sphere vase" by Jason Ho Commentary: "This is an interesting arrangement. A small vase in a shape of a sphere is tied to the top and a flower is placed in the vase. There were many of such vases and flowers, but I just took one." | "Sphere Lamp 1" by Jasper Zeinstra Commentary: "Sphere Lamp." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. |
Gail Hamilton | Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. |
James Russell Lowell | Notoriety may be achieved in a narrow sphere, but fame demands for its evidence a more distant and prolonged reverberation. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. |
Nathalie Sarraute | Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Council may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the League or affecting the peace of the world. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | Strange pictures decked the arras drear, Strange characters of woe and fear, The humbugs of the social sphere. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | They now felt themselves, at least, inhabitants of the same sphere. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The traveller paused and examined in the stone at the left of the door, near the ground, a large circular excavation like the hollow of a sphere. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is a microscopic sphere encasing a 20-sided geometric figure called an icosahedron. (references) | |
In the sphere of long-term care (LTC), there is growing interest in shifting the balance of effort away from the present institutionally-dominated model to include more home and community-based care (HCBC). Such a transition would include the emergence of new hybrid forms of institutional and community care, such as assisted living, which permit better (less institutional) living situations and individually packaged services that respond to client needs. (references) | ||
Business | KEPCO’s sphere of influence reaches beyond just that of electricity into various economic sectors, some of which have strangely little to do with energy. (references) | |
The first step towards structural change in the sphere of post and telecommunications was made when regional production communication departments were reorganized to enterprises of post and electrical communications. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | The Court refused to intervene in the budgetary process on the grounds that such action would invade the proper sphere of the legislature. (references) |
Ukraine | Reportedly each of these churches, within its respective sphere of influence, also pressured local officials to restrict the activities of the others. (references) | |
Estonia | On June 29, President Lennaert Meri refused to promulgate the law, declaring, in part, that it constituted an intrusion into the sphere of autonomy of religious institutions. (references) | |
Economic History | Zimbabwe | Later that year, the area that became Southern and Northern Rhodesia was proclaimed a British sphere of influence. (references) |
Namibia | The following year, the United Kingdom recognized the hinterland up to 20 degrees east longitude as a German sphere of influence. (references) | |
Zambia | In the same year, Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe, respectively) were proclaimed a British sphere of influence. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | In particular, critics allege that the clerical courts are used to prosecute certain clerics for expressing controversial ideas and for participating in activities outside the sphere of religion, such as journalism. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABSENTEE, n. A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Each Government will acquire new force and a greater freedom of action within its proper sphere. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | To pursue to their consummation those purposes of improvement in our common condition instituted or recommended by him will embrace the whole sphere of my obligations. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen, in his own sphere of action, whether limited or extended, to exert himself in perpetuating a condition of things so singularly happy! |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | The Government of the Union, acting within the sphere of its delegated authority, is also a complete sovereignty. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Only a few short weeks ago, we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We've also expanded our own sphere of friendship. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sphere" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.68% of the time. "Sphere" is used about 1,236 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.68% | 1,232 | 6,340 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.32% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,236 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sphere". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Caphtor | N/A | Biblical | A sphere |
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Expressions using "sphere": Armillary sphere ♦ Attraction sphere ♦ celestial sphere ♦ Circle of the sphere ♦ Crystalline sphere ♦ Doctrine of the sphere ♦ Great circle of a sphere ♦ half a sphere ♦ indium sphere ♦ integrating sphere ♦ magic sphere ♦ oblique sphere ♦ osculatory sphere ♦ parallel circles of a sphere ♦ parallel sphere ♦ political sphere ♦ right sphere ♦ sector of a sphere ♦ segment of a sphere ♦ segmentation sphere ♦ sphere of action ♦ sphere of activity ♦ sphere of influence ♦ that is out of my sphere ♦ the sphere ♦ Thelonious Sphere Monk ♦ Ulbricht sphere. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "sphere": Sense-sphere. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sphere | 809 | web sphere | 16 |
volume of a sphere | 137 | sphere server | 15 |
music of the sphere | 92 | 3d sphere | 15 |
h reseller sphere | 67 | red sphere | 15 |
area sphere surface | 58 | plastic sphere | 15 |
area sphere | 45 | sphere chair | 15 |
sphere machine | 33 | 7th sphere | 15 |
celestial sphere | 31 | secret sphere | 14 |
volume sphere formula | 28 | connect seeking sphere them | 12 |
aqua sphere | 27 | hip hop sphere | 11 |
mineral sphere | 26 | uo sphere | 11 |
sphere fountain | 23 | britney sphere | 11 |
sphere of influence | 22 | buffalo sphere | 11 |
armillary sphere | 22 | blue ocean rom sphere star | 11 |
garden sphere | 21 | grid sphere | 10 |
dyson sphere | 21 | 55i sphere | 10 |
glass sphere | 20 | packing sphere | 10 |
h sphere | 19 | anime emu sphere | 10 |
music of the sphere wind chime | 19 | hoberman sphere | 10 |
blue ocean sphere star | 16 | nike sphere | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sphere"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sferë (area, ball, domain, field, front, globe, globule, level, orb, range, realm, region, scope, world), zar (ball, dibs, dice), rruzull (ball, bowl, globe, nodule, orb). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلك (circuit, orb, orbit), ميدان (arena, domain, field, line, place, province, square), منزلة إجتماعية (class, consequence, station), مجال النشاط, نجم سيار, صعيد (field, level, plateau), جسم كروى, جعله كرويا, الكرة السماوية, أحاط (begird, border on, bound, circuit, edge, encircle, frame, girdle, hill, rim, ring), دنيا (walk, world). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | среда (ambience, background, circle, core, entourage, mean, medium, middle, setting, surroundings), сфера на действие (incidence, scene), сфера (area, demesne, globe, orb, province, purview, range, reach, realm, region, scope), кълбо (ball, balloon, globe, orb, puff), кръг (circle, cycle, disc, disk, orb, range, ring, round, set), въздигам до небесата, обкръжение (encirclement, entourage, surroundings), небесно тяло (globe, orb), небесни селения, небе (blue, canopy, heaven, heavens, sky), звезда (headliner, spider, star, top-liner, world), затварям в сфера, придавам сферична форма на, планета (planet, primary, world). (various references) | |
Chinese | 領域 (area, domain, field, territory), 球狀 , 球形, 球 (ball). (various references) | |
Czech | sféra (area, domain, realm, region), zemìkoule (globe), obor (department, discipline, field, line, province, specialization, subject), oblast (ambit, area, corner, district, domain, land, part, realm, region, section, territory, zone), obìh (circuit, circulation, cycle, flow, orbit, revolution, turn), nebeská klenba, kruh (circle, ring, round, wheel), koule (ball, globe, orb, round). (various references) | |
Danish | sfaere, kugle (bullet). (various references) | |
Dutch | sfeer (atmosphere, ball, ethos, mood), bol (ball, ball-bearing, bulb, dome, globe, vault, vaulted ceiling), omgeving (ball, environment, environs, surroundings), kloot (ball, ball-bearing, globe, testicle), gebied (area, ball, region, territory). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sfero (ball). (various references) | |
Faeroese | virkisøki (ball), øki (ball). (various references) | |
Farsi | فلک (Bastinado, Heaven, Orbit, Sky), محیط (Circumference, Comprehensive, Entourage, Environment, Girth, Lap, Milieu, Outside, Perimeter, Periphery), مرتبه (Order, Place, Stair), کره (Butter, Butterfat, Globe), گوی (Ball, Globe, Orb), گردون (Heaven), حدودفعالیت (Orbit), جسم کروی (Orb), احاطه کردن (Beset, Box, Circle, Circuit, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Hoop, Impale, Orb, Pale, Ring, Skirt), دایره معلومات , دایره (Bureau, Circle, Compass, Disk, Rhomb, Roundel, Section, Tambourine), بصورت کره دراوردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | pallo (ball, ball-bearing, bowl, globe), ala (area, branch, extent, field, line, occupation, profession, space, territory, trade). (various references) | |
French | sphère. (various references) | |
Frisian | sfear (ball). (various references) | |
German | Sphäre (ball), Kugel (ball, ball-bearing, bowl, bullet, globe, marble, orb, pellet, scoop, shot, slug), Bereich (area, array, bulk, circuit, department, dimension, domain, extend, field, orbit, province, purview, range, realm, region, scope, sector, size, span, sweep, territory, universe, zone). (various references) | |
Greek | σφαίρα (ball, bowl, bullet, globe, orb, projectile, realm, shot, slug). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תחום (area, border, bound, boundary, compass, confines, domain, limit, mete, orb, precinct, radius, range, realm, region, scope, sweep, territory, zone), הקף (circuit, circumference, compass, extent, girth, periphery, range, scope, sweep), גלגל (cycle, helm, hoop, orb, pulley, wheel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szféra (ball), gömb (ball, orb), terület (area, bailiwick, bawn, building site, countryside, district, domain, ground, grounds, land, location, mop-up, place, province, region, reservation, scope, terrain, territory, zone), kör (circle, circuit, compass, coterie, cycle, cyclo, lap, range, ring, rondure, round, scope, social club), golyó (ball, bullet, cartridge, orb, shot, slug, stone). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lingkaran (circle, rim), kawasan (district, region), bulatan (orb, rotundity), bulat (round, unanimous). (various references) | |
Italian | sfera (ball, globe, orb, round). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 玉 (ball, coin, king). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たま (ball, bullet, coin, globe, shell, shot, soul, spirit), くいき (boundary, domain, limits, territory, zone), きゅうたい (globe, laziness, neglect, old state of affairs, orb), きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gather, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sleep, steep, sudden, taking a day off, urgent, wage), ぶんや (branch, division, field, realm), あめつち (heaven and earth, nature, realm, the universe, top and bottom, world), けん (and, authority, bayonet, blade, bond, case, certificate, circle, clock hand, concurrently, coupon, economy, emperor, health, heaven, in addition, item, matter, prefecture, range, sabre, stick-to-itiveness, sting, strength, sword, tendon, the right, ticket), はんい (extent, malice, range, scope, spirit of rebellion), てんち (a change of air or scenery, heaven and earth, nature, realm, the universe, top and bottom, world), だま (ball, coin). (various references) | |
Korean | 구체 (Concrete). (various references) | |
Manx | runtag (globule, round object), magher (campaign, chase, fertile land, field, machar), cruinney (angle, globe, world, world Universe). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eresphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esfera (circle, globe, orb, radius, realm, region, round). (various references) | |
Romanian | sector (compartment, field, partition, section, sector, span, zone), sferã (bowl, branch, circle, direction, domain, extension, field, globe, kingdom, line, orb, parish, pill, province, purview, range), da o formã sfericã (globe), îngloba (cover, integrate), astru (globe, light, luminary, star), boltã cereascã, câmp (acre, field, ground, plain, range, scope), cerc (band, circle, circles, class, compass, coterie, district, extent, hoop, range, rim, ring, round, set, zone), ţãrm (bank, beach, border, brim, brink, clime, foreshore, haven, margin, refuge, region, river side, seaboard, sea-shore, seaside, shore, strand), cuprinde într-o sferã, domeniu (area, branch, damper, demesne, department, direction, domain, estate, field, kingdom, line, parish, realm, scope, space), glob (bowl, earth, globe, orb), materie (domain, fabric, material, matter, stuff, subject, substance), orbitã (circle, eyehole, orbit, range, scope), resort (competence), corp ceresc (heavenly body, orb). (various references) | |
Russian | сфера (area, orb, orbit, purview, realm). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sfera (field, orb), nebesko telo (heavenly body, orb), moć shvatanja, lopta (ball, globe, handball), domen (dominion), delokrug (competence, competency, orb, purview). (various references) | |
Spanish | esfera (area, arena, ball, clock, dial, Diapason, face, field, globe, lieu, plane, province, purview, realm, round). (various references) | |
Swedish | sfär (ball, orb, pale, province), rymnd, krets (circle, circuit, district, division, orbit, ring, round, set), glob (ball, ball-bearing, globe, orb). (various references) | |
Thai | โลก (earth, globe), สิ่งแวดล้อม (habitat), วง, รูปทรงกลม, ระบบจักรวาล. (various references) | |
Turkish | sınıf (branch, category, circle, class, classroom, denomination, estate, form, genus, grade, order, race, rank, rate, schoolroom, sort, States), yuvar (ball), yerküre (clay, Terra, terrestrial globe), tabaka (bed, cigarette case, coat, coating, collection, covering, lamina, layer, order, ply, rank, sheet, stage, stratum), katman (bed, deposit, layer, sheet, stage, stratum, system), küre (ball, balloon, globe, orb, sphaero-), gökyüzü (air, azure, canopy of heaven, ether, heaven, skies, sky, vault of heaven, welkin), alan (acceptor, ambit, area, arena, buyer, compass, consignee, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, range, reach, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, square, susceptive, theater, theatre, tract, yard), çevre (adjacencies, ambiance, ambience, ambient, ambit, atmosphere, circle, circumference, climate, compass, contour, domain, ecological, entourage, environment, environmental, girth, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, premises, purlieus, radius, region, society, surroundings, vicinity). (various references) | |
Turkmen | togalak (spherical). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сфера (ambit, area, circle, orb, purview, range, realm, region, way, world), куля (ball, bullet, globe, orb, round, slug, wood), глобус (globe), небо (blue, heaven, sky), земна куля (earth). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vũ trụ (universe), vị trí xã hội, thiên thể khu vực, quả cầu (ball), môi trường hình học và lượng giác cầu, khối cầu, hình cầu (globose, globous, orb). (various references) | |
Welsh | cylch (circle, hoop, round), cronnell (globe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gur. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | sphaira. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arta, arte, arteman, artis, arto, artum, globum, globus, orbe, orbem, orbi, orbis, pila, pilae, pilam, pilis, spherae, spheram, spherula, spherulae, spherulaeque, spherulaque, spherulas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sphere": sphered, spheres. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sphere": asthenosphere, atmosphere, bathysphere, biosphere, chromosphere, ecosphere, ensphere, exosphere, hemisphere, hydrosphere, insphere, ionosphere, lithosphere, magnetosphere, mesosphere, microsphere, noosphere, oosphere, ozonosphere, photosphere, planisphere, rhizosphere, stratosphere, thermosphere, troposphere, unsphere. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sphere": asthenospheres, atmosphered, atmospheres, bathyspheres, biospheres, chromospheres, ecospheres, ensphered, enspheres, exospheres, hemispheres, hydrospheres, insphered, inspheres, ionospheres, lithospheres, magnetospheres, mesospheres, microspheres, noospheres, oospheres, ozonospheres, photospheres, planispheres, rhizospheres, stratospheres, thermospheres, tropospheres, unsphered, unspheres. (additional references) | |
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"Sphere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ephebe, Esphyr, phedre, phere, Sephirot, Sfera, shere, shpere, sipher, siphers, sphare, sphe, spher, sphero, sphor, sphur, spuere. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sphere" (pronounced sfi"r) |
| 3 | -f i" r | fear, interfere. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: herpes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: heres, peers, perse, prees, prese, sheep, sheer, speer, spree. | |
-2 letters: here, hers, peer, pees, pehs, pree, rees, reps, resh, seep, seer, sere. | |
-3 letters: ere, ers, hep, her, hes, pee, peh, per, pes, ree, rep, res, see, ser, she. | |
-4 letters: eh, er, es, he, pe, re, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: helpers, perches, reshape, sphered, spheres, threeps. | |
+2 letters: cheepers, ensphere, ephedras, euphroes, insphere, oosphere, peachers, perchers, perished, perishes, pharisee, preaches, preheats, preshape, rephrase, reshaped, reshaper, reshapes, shepherd, spherier, spherule, syphered, telphers, unsphere. | |
+3 letters: aphereses, apheresis, biosphere, coryphees, deciphers, earphones, earthpeas, ecosphere, eldership, enciphers, ensphered, enspheres, eparchies, ephedrins, ephemeras, ephemeris, ephorates, exosphere, graphemes, hamperers, hemipters, hyperopes, insphered, inspheres, morphemes, nephrites, nephroses, noosphere, oospheres, overheaps, overhopes, overhypes, perhapses, pharisees, phrensied, phrensies, poechores, preachers, prechecks, preshaped, preshapes, preshowed, prewashed, prewashes, protheses, repatches, rephrased, rephrases, replenish, reshapers, reshipped, semaphore, sepulcher, sepulchre, shapelier, sharpened, sharpener, shepherds, spearhead, spheriest, spherules, superheat, superhero, superhype, tephrites, therapies, threapers, trephines, unsphered, unspheres, upheavers, upreaches, whispered, whisperer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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