Definition of Sphere

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Sphere

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.

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.

In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.

The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.

Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.

Rank; order of society; social positions.

An orbit, as of a star; a socket.

To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.

To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

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Sphere Quotations

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Robert H. Schuller

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
Carter G. Woodson

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Carter G. Woodson

Sphere Translations

sphere in Dutch is kloot, omgeving, bol, sfeer, gebied
sphere in Portuguese is esfera
sphere in Spanish is esfera

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