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Meaning of "spherical geometry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPHERICAL GEOMETRY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPHERICAL GEOMETRY

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Spherical geometry is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPHERICAL GEOMETRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Spherical geometry

Spherical geometry is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere. It is an example of a geometry which is not Euclidean. Two practical applications of the principles of spherical geometry are to navigation and astronomy. In plane geometry the basic concepts are points and lines. On the sphere, points are defined in the usual sense. The equivalents of lines are not defined in the usual sense of "straight line" in Euclidean geometry but in the sense of "the shortest paths between points," which are called geodesics. On the sphere the geodesics are the great circles; other geometric concepts are defined as in plane geometry but with straight lines replaced by great circles. Thus, in spherical geometry angles are defined between great circles, resulting in a spherical trigonometry that differs from ordinary trigonometry in many respects; for example, the sum of the interior angles of a triangle exceeds 180 degrees. Spherical geometry is not elliptic geometry but shares with that geometry the property that a line has no parallels through a given point.

Definition of spherical geometry in the English dictionary

The definition of spherical geometry in the dictionary is the branch of geometry concerned with the properties of figures formed on the surface of a sphere.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPHERICAL GEOMETRY

spheral
sphere
sphere of influence
sphereless
spherelike
spheric
spherical
spherical aberration
spherical angle
spherical coordinates
spherical polygon
spherical triangle
spherical trigonometry
sphericality
spherically
sphericalness
sphericity
spherics
spheristerion
spherocyte

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPHERICAL GEOMETRY

altimetry
anthropometry
astrometry
asymmetry
audiometry
biometry
calorimetry
cytometry
geometry
morphometry
optometry
poetry
psychometry
spectrometry
spectrophotometry
stoichiometry
supersymmetry
symmetry
telemetry
trigonometry
velocimetry

Synonyms and antonyms of spherical geometry in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «spherical geometry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPHERICAL GEOMETRY

Find out the translation of spherical geometry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spherical geometry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spherical geometry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

球面几何
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

geometría esférica
570 millions of speakers

English

spherical geometry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोलाकार ज्यामिति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهندسة الكروية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сферическая геометрия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

geometria esférica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোলাকার জ্যামিতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

géométrie sphérique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Geometri sfera
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kugelgeometrie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

球面幾何学
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구면 기하학
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Geometri spherical
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình học hình cầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோள வடிவவியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भौगोलिक भूमिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Küresel geometri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

geometria sferica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

geometria sferyczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сферична геометрія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

geometrie sferică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σφαιρική γεωμετρία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bolgeometrie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sfärisk geometri
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sfærisk geometri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spherical geometry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPHERICAL GEOMETRY»

The term «spherical geometry» is normally little used and occupies the 120.197 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPHERICAL GEOMETRY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spherical geometry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPHERICAL GEOMETRY»

Discover the use of spherical geometry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spherical geometry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Textbook on Spherical Astronomy
This new revision of a standard work gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Useful for researchers as well as undergraduates.
William Marshall Smart, R. M. Green, 1977
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Geometry and Its Applications
Axioms in Spherical Geometry That Are Translated Versions of Axioms in Euclidean Geometry At the beginning of this section, we mentioned that the SAS congruence axiom of Euclidean geometry has a translated version in spherical ...
Walter A. Meyer, 2006
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Modern Geometry with Applications
Much emphasis is placed on applications throughout the book, which motivate the topics, and many additional applications are given in the exercises.
George Jennings, 1994
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Geometry - Including Plane, Solid, and Spherical Geometry, ...
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Edward Olney, 2010
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Making Geometry Come Alive: Student Activities and Teacher Notes
Spherical geometry is an example of Riemannian geometry, the geometry used by Einstein in his theory of relativity. A sphere is an easy model to work with and of course represents the world we live on. Students will be surprised to find the ...
Alfred S. Posamentier, 2000
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Spherical Astronomy
1.2 Spherical geometry - great circle arcs A sphere is defined as the surface whose points are all equidistant from a fixed point, the centre. The sphere is a two -dimensional surface which is finite but unbounded. Spherical geometry, meaning ...
Robin Michael Green, 1985
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Geometry
Indeed, there are closer analogies between spherical geometry and hyperbolic geometry than there are between either geometry and Euclidean geometry. Many aspects of spherical geometry may be studied more easily if we first map the ...
David A. Brannan, Matthew F. Esplen, Jeremy J. Gray, 2011
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Elements of Geometry and Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: ...
SPHERICAL GEOMETRY AH D TRIGONOMETRY. SECTION I. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. Spherical Geometry has for its object the investigation of the properties, and of the relations to each other, of the portions of the surface ...
Horatio Nelson Robinson, 1867
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Introduction to Geometric Computing
Assigning coordinates to spherical objects also makes the assignment of homogeneous coordinates to projective objects more intuitive. But spherical geometry is also interesting in its own right as many geometric systems are implemented on ...
Sherif Ghali, 2008
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Computing in Euclidean Geometry
We shall conclude this short survey article by mentioniong some examples of immediate applications in the realm of euclidean or spherical geometry. (4.1) Spherical trigonometry and spherical geometry. The (n — 1 )-dimensional sphere , ...
Dingzhu Du, Frank Hwang, 1992

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPHERICAL GEOMETRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spherical geometry is used in the context of the following news items.
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Spherical Flying Drone Inspired By The Movies
The main drive of the spherical drone consists of a shrouded propeller ... ducts were shaped such that they conforms to the spherical geometry of a sphere.”. «Geeky Gadgets, Jun 15»
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Moon's hidden valley system revealed
"What we're seeing is a clever trick of spherical geometry. For structures on this scale, a polygon with 120-degree angles at the corners actually has four sides ... «BBC News, Oct 14»
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How Not to Be Wrong (Book Review)
Euclidean geometry is very useful, but there are centuries of sailors and astronomers who will tell you that spherical geometry has some truths of its own. «Scientific American, May 14»
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Optofluidic microlasers based on liquid droplet resonators for …
Thanks to their spherical geometry and smooth surface, droplet-based cavities host high-quality optical resonances called whispering gallery modes (WGMs). «SPIE Newsroom, Jan 14»
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That's a Stretch
... and anyone that's tried to go from standard planar Euclidean geometry to spherical geometry can attest to the fact that adding a dimension complicates things. «EE Journal, Jan 14»
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Spherical geometry: Going around in great circles to get to the point
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This is one of the basic principles of Euclidean geometry. But we live on a spherical Earth, so we ... «Irish Times, Oct 13»
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Islam's Influence on Geometry
Ibn Qurra also expanded on the Pythagorean theorem, extending it to all triangles. Other Muslim mathematicians applied research in spherical geometry to the ... «Opposing Views, Apr 13»
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Think Globally
In an era of globalization, Google Earth and transcontinental air travel, all of us should try to learn a little about spherical geometry and its modern generalization, ... «New York Times, Mar 10»
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A simpler route to invisibility
The plane represents the region away from the cloak containing the light source and the observer, while the spherical geometry contains the region to be ... «physicsworld.com, Nov 08»

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