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Doublet :: Doublet (a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct..

Birectangular :: Birectangular (a.) Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle..

Catallacta :: Catallacta (n. pl.) A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies..

Voltzite :: Voltzite (n.) An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.

Aplanatism :: Aplanatism (n.) Freedom from spherical aberration.

Bomb :: Bomb (n.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell..

Globularly :: Globularly (adv.) Spherically.

Spherometer :: Spherometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc..

Globous :: Globous (a.) Spherical.

Cap :: Cap (n.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.

Orb :: Orb (n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star..

Orbicular :: Orbicular (a.) Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.

Terrel :: Terrel (n.) A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth..

Cyclide :: Cyclide (n.) A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides..

Globulous :: Globulous (a.) Globular; spherical; orbicular.

Vesicle :: Vesicle (n.) A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the molten mass..

Ascococcus :: Ascococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci..

Conico- :: Conico- (a.) A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico-hemispherical; conico-subulate..

Round :: Round (v. t.) To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything..

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it..

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