spherical

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Shaped as a sphere; being a sphere.
    — 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.
  2. Of, or pertaining to, spheres. not-comparable
  3. Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
  4. Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
    — Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.
  5. Of a multivariate probability distribution, to have a covariance matrix equal to the identity matrix up to a multiplicative factor.
    — a spherical Gaussian distribution

词形变化

more spherical comparative most spherical superlative sphærical alternative,archaic

词源

English spheric [from Latin sphaericus, from Ancient Greek σφαιρικός (sphairikós)] + -al.
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