Definitions for sphere

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Spelling: [sfeer]

IPA: /sfɪər/

Sphere is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in sphere (eehprs).

Definitions for sphere

noun

1. Geometry. a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 . the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
2. any rounded body approximately of this form; a globular mass, shell, etc.
3. Astronomy. a planet or star; heavenly body. celestial sphere. any of the transparent, concentric, spherical shells, or layers, in which, according to ancient belief, the planets, stars, and other heavenly bodies were set.
4. the place or environment within which a person or thing exists; a field of activity or operation:
5. a particular social world, stratum of society, or walk of life:
6. a field of something specified:

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose in or as if in a sphere.
2. to form into a sphere.
3. to place among the heavenly spheres.

Origin of sphere

1250-1300; Late Latin sphēra, Latin sphaera globe Greek sphaîra ball; replacing Middle English spere Old French spere Late Latin spēra, variant of sphēra

Examples for sphere

Moreover, it did not take him out of his own sphere—the sphere which is watched by the police.

I've been living very economically for the sphere that seemed open to me.

And while I may have put a bunch of stunt guys in peril on Titanic, it was my ass in the sphere on the dive.

And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

Alice herself was to be removed from the sphere of her humble calling.

Business decisions sometimes operate in a sphere almost devoid of morality.

There was nothing in her behaviour to indicate a consciousness of error from her sphere.

In almost every sphere of life, the trend is to trade in ownership for access.

This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.

At that point, a sphere lit up, resembling the landing of the UFO in E.T., and the overheard lights descended on the stage.