spherical

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: An inflation force is used at each vertex to inflate the overall model, while surface tension attempts to keep the mesh spherical.

Modifies a noun

• aberration: The image, despite the spherical aberration, was by far superior to any existing microscope made by his contemporaries.
• trigonometry: These texts were the precursors of spherical trigonometry, which became vital to astronomy.
• harmonic: The current state of the art makes use of spherical harmonics.
• tokamak: The main highlights of the year include: First experimental campaign of our new spherical tokamak, MAST, which has been highly successful.
• tokamaks: Very low aspect ratio tokamaks are often called spherical tokamaks.
• harmonics: Be able to demonstrate the physical significance of closed shells by using plots of the spherical harmonics.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: Again, the planet does not appear perfectly spherical.
• become: One way for a three-dimensional object to decrease its surface area and to increase its volume is to become more spherical.
• have: Under the microscope, an anther can be seen to have many spherical to ellipsoidal pollen grains on its surface.
• look: Note also that wormholes should look spherical, not like tunnels!

Modifying Another Word

• roughly: The eye is a roughly spherical organ built a bit like a football.
• perfectly: His two perfectly spherical eyes like pools of ice.
• approximately: The body is approximately spherical up to 30 m m in diameter.
• nearly: Gravity attracts matter together into spherical stars, like the Sun, and nearly spherical planets like our Earth.
• almost: The almost spherical shape is due to the surface tension of the model.
• usually: These are followed by edible, usually spherical, fruits.

Preposition: in

• shape: He declared that the Earth, which possessed a divine essence or ' world soul ' , was perfectly spherical in shape.

Preposition: with

• diameter: They were spherical with a diameter of 28 to 30 nm.