Word Meanings - SPHERE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center. 2. Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth. Of celestial

Additional info about word: SPHERE

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center. 2. Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth. Of celestial bodies, first the sun, A mighty sphere, he framed. Milton. The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it. In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPHERE)

• Climate
• Air
• atmosphere
• temperature
• weather
• clime
• sky
• region
• sphere
• latitude
• Compartment
• Division
• partition
• allotment
• space
• Orb
• Sphere
• circle
• ball
• globe
• Orbit
• Revolution
• path
• circuit
• Province
• Tract
• department
• section
• domain
• territory

Related words: (words related to SPHERE)

• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• ORBITARY
  Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• WEATHER-BIT
  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• WEATHER MAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather,
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• COMPARTMENT
  One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.