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▸ noun: Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
▸ noun: (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
▸ noun: An orbit of an heavenly body
▸ noun: (rare) The time period of an orbit
▸ noun: (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
▸ noun: (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
▸ noun: (rare) A sphere of action.
▸ noun: A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
▸ noun: A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
▸ noun: (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
▸ noun: (astrology) Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
▸ verb: (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
▸ verb: (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
▸ verb: (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
▸ noun: (architecture) A blank window or panel.
▸ noun: (software engineering) Initialism of object request broker. [(software engineering) A piece of middleware in distributed software that enables program calls from one computer to another via a network.]
▸ noun: (historical, military) Initialism of operations record book. (used by RAF)
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globe,
eyeball,
ball,
sphere,
round,
asphere,
circle,
oblique sphere,
celestial object,
sphære,
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