spherics

¹ American  

[sfer-iks, sfeer-] / ˈsfɛr ɪks, ˈsfɪər- /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the geometry and trigonometry of figures formed on the surface of a sphere.

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spherics ² American  

[sfer-iks, sfeer-] / ˈsfɛr ɪks, ˈsfɪər- /

noun

1. (used with a singular verb) Also a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.

2. (used with a plural verb) atmospherics.

3. (used with a singular verb) sferics.

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spherics ¹ British  

/ ˈsfɛrɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the geometry and trigonometry of figures on the surface of a sphere

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spherics ² British  

/ ˈsfɛrɪks, ˈsfɪər- /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) short for atmospherics

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Etymology

Origin of spherics¹

1650–60; earlier spheric, noun use of the adj. < Late Latin sphēricus < Greek sphairikós. See sphere, -ic, -ics

Origin of spherics²

Short for atmospherics

Example Sentences

Along with Spherics, the program lost an undisclosed amount of money on a $2 million loan to biotech firm Acusphere, according to MassDevelopment.

From Reuters

A $2.5 million state loan helped lure Rhode Island biotech firm Spherics Inc across the state line to Massachusetts in 2005.

From Reuters

Spherics, or the doctrine of the sphere, was the subject of numerous treatises, and the foundations were securely laid for that department of astronomical research which was absolutely essential to farther advance.

From Project Gutenberg

His edition of the Spherics of Menelaus was published by his friend Dr Costard in 1758.

From Project Gutenberg

The most important are:—Euclid's Elements; Euclid's Data; Optical Lectures, read in the public school of Cambridge; Thirteen Geometrical Lectures; The Works of Archimedes, the Four Books of Apollonius's Conic Sections, and Theodosius's Spherics, explained in a New Method; A Lecture, in which Archimedes' Theorems of the Sphere and Cylinder are investigated and briefly demonstrated; Mathematical Lectures, read in the public schools of the university of Cambridge.

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