spherical

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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. sıfat Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
3. sıfat Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
4. sıfat 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. sıfat Of a multivariate probability distribution, to have a covariance matrix equal to the identity matrix up to a multiplicative factor.

   “a spherical Gaussian distribution”