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spherics

1

[ sfer-iks, sfeer- ]

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. the geometry and trigonometry of figures formed on the surface of a sphere.


spherics

2

[ sfer-iks, sfeer- ]

noun

  1. Also (used with a singular verb) 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) Radio and Television. atmospherics.
  3. (used with a singular verb) sferics ( def 3 ).

spherics

1

/ ˈ²õ´ÚÉ›°ùɪ°ì²õ /

noun

  1. functioning as singular the geometry and trigonometry of figures on the surface of a sphere
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

spherics

2

/ ˈ²õ´ÚÉ›°ùɪ°ì²õ; ˈsfɪər- /

noun

  1. functioning as singular short for atmospherics
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of spherics1

1650–60; earlier spheric, noun use of the adj. < Late Latin ²õ±è³óŧ°ù¾±³¦³Ü²õ < Greek ²õ±è³ó²¹¾±°ù¾±°ìó²õ. See sphere, -ic, -ics

Origin of spherics2

Short for atmospherics
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Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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

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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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