Crossword-Solution: SPHERICS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spherics | n. | The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry. |
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| Branch of non-Euclidean geometry | 1 answer |
| Meteorology branch | 1 answer |
| geometry and trigonometry of figures on the surface of a sphere | 1 answer |
| Geometry subject | 4 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with SPHERICS (5)
Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, _95 Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,--disentangle them who may.
The most important are:--_Euclid's Elements; Euclid's Data; Optical Lectures_, read in the public school of Cambridge; _Thirteen Geometrical Lectures; The Works of Archimedes, the Four Books of Apollonius's Conic Sections, and Theodosius's Spherics, explained in a New Method_; A _Lecture_, in which Archimedes' Theorems of the Sphere and Cylinder are investigated and briefly demonstrated; _Mathematical Lectures_, read in the public schools of the university of Cambridge.
Etym: [Sphere + -graph.] Defn: An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection.
Spherics, or the doctrine of the sphere, was the subject of numerous treatises, and the foundations were securely laid for that department of astronomical research which was absolutely essential to farther advance.
His treatment of spherics and of the affections of the sides and angles is, in many respects, novel, and more easy of apprehension by the general student.
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Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2000–2010).