spherical geometry

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noun

the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.

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Origin of spherical geometry

First recorded in 1720–30

Words nearby spherical geometry

spherical angle, spherical astronomy, spherical coordinate, spherical coordinates, spherical excess, spherical geometry, spherical lens, spherical polygon, spherical sailing, spherical triangle, spherical trigonometry

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How to use spherical geometry in a sentence

Walking through the center of town near Dunne Park offers keen observers a hidden funfair of skewed geometry.
Silicon Valley Mansions, Swallowed Alive|Geoff Manaugh|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Objects more massive than a certain amount are more spherical than not, while punier specimens are lumpy and irregular.
Saturn’s Death Star Look-Alike|Matthew R. Francis|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Everything becomes a sort of calculation against the geometry and parabolas of the IDF.
Dodging Rockets in Afghanistan as the Taliban’s Fighting Season Begins|Nick Willard|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He turned his thesis into the book Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics on the new developments in differential geometry.
This is What Happens When You Teach Machines the Power of Natural Selection|James Barrat|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

If you understand geometry, I think you can understand a lot in science.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky?|Jimmy So|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When it is new, and also when in its waning stages it is visible in the daytime, the spherical form is very apparent.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
We may note that in a few months of heavy weather the stones of such a fall have all been reduced to rudely spherical forms.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
These bits are commonly distinctly faceted; they rarely have a spherical form.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Upon these spherical aggregations of the clouds the winds act in extremely varied ways.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Philosophy kept pace with geometry, and those who observed Nature also gloried in abstruse calculations.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord

British Dictionary definitions for spherical geometry

spherical geometry

noun

the branch of geometry concerned with the properties of figures formed on the surface of a sphere

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Scientific definitions for spherical geometry

spherical geometry

The geometry of circles, angles, and figures on the surface of a sphere.