Phrase Hound found 27 phrases and 94 compound words that contain spheres. The most common are listed below. Open spheres in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 27
- music of the spheresA continuous, glorious, harmonious set of sounds that are not audible to ordinary human beings, said in ancient and medieval Western cosmology to be produced by the movement of the celestial bodies.
- spheres of influenceplural of sphere of influence: A spatial region over which a state has a level of cultural, economic, military or political exclusivity.
- spheres of knowledgeplural of sphere of knowledge: A unified body or collection of knowledge regarding a specific subject.
- harmony of the spheresSynonym of music of the spheres: A continuous, glorious, harmonious set of sounds that are not audible to ordinary human beings, said in ancient and medieval Western cosmology to be produced by the movement of the celestial bodies.
- celestial spheresplural of celestial sphere: The apparent outer limit of space; an abstract sphere of infinite radius which serves as the imaginary backdrop for celestial objects, and of which the visible sky is one hemisphere.
- crystal spheresplural of crystal sphere: A crystal ball.
- n-spheresplural of n-sphere: An n-dimensional hypersphere: the 2-sphere is a circle, the 3-sphere is the usual sphere, the 4-sphere is a glome, etc.
- Dyson spheresplural of Dyson sphere: A hypothetical system of orbiting solar power satellites meant to completely encompass a star and capture its entire energy output.
- bouquet of spheresA wedge product of two or more spheres joined at a distinguished point, usually the equator.
- Klerksdorp spheresplural of Klerksdorp sphere: A small object, often spherical to disc-shaped, found in three-billion-year-old pyrophyllite deposits mined near Ottosdal in South Africa, and thought to have originated as concretions in ancient accumulated …
- armillary spheresplural of armillary sphere: An instrument consisting of graduated metal circles used to represent the motions of celestial bodies around the earth.
- diving spheresplural of diving sphere: A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe.
- exotic spheresplural of exotic sphere: A manifold (of any dimension) homeomorphic to a sphere but not diffeomorphic to the standard sphere.
- Hill spheresplural of Hill sphere: The region in which a given astronomical body dominates the attraction of satellites.
- oblique spheresplural of oblique sphere: The celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator.
- photon spheresplural of photon sphere: Of a black hole, a spherical limit around a black hole at such distance that any photon meeting it tangentially is constrained to travel in a circular orbit; (more loosely) the region between this limit and the …
- Roche spheresplural of Roche sphere: The region in which a given astronomical body dominates the attraction of satellites.
- unit spheresplural of unit sphere: A sphere with a radius of 1 unit.
- homology spheresplural of homology sphere: A manifold whose homology is the same as that of some sphere of the same dimension
- Hubble spheresplural of Hubble sphere: Hubble volume
- Bloch spheresplural of Bloch sphere: A geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum-mechanical system, or qubit.
- Laplace spheresplural of Laplace sphere: The region around a planet in which a satellite would maintain an orbit around the planet instead of its star.
- Riemann spheresplural of Riemann sphere: The complex numbers extended with the number ∞; the complex plane (representation of the complex numbers as a Euclidean plane) extended with a single idealised point at infinity and consequently homeomorphic to a …
- bouquets of spheresplural of bouquet of spheres: A wedge product of two or more spheres joined at a distinguished point, usually the equator.
- Alexander horned spheresplural of Alexander horned sphere: A pathological object, a certain embedding of a sphere in three-dimensional Euclidean space, obtained by various modifications of a torus.
Compound words 94
- atmospheresplural of atmosphere: The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- hemispheresplural of hemisphere: Half of the celestial sphere, as divided by either the ecliptic or the celestial equator .
- microspheresplural of microsphere: Any sphere whose size is measured in micrometres
- nanospheresplural of nanosphere: A nanoscale sphere
- fluorospheresplural of fluorosphere: A fluorescent microsphere
- halfspheresplural of halfsphere: hemisphere
- lipospheresplural of liposphere: A droplet of lipid, stabilized by a layer of phospholipid, used as a drug-delivery system.
- astrospheresplural of astrosphere: A cavity filled with hot gas blown into the interstellar medium by stellar winds.
- biospheresplural of biosphere: The part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.
- cardiospheresplural of cardiosphere: A cluster of endogenous cardiac stem cells that forms when they are cloned in suspension.