Usually means: Round three-dimensional geometric solid shape.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. -sphere, sphere: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -sphere, sphere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sphere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -sphere, sphere: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sphere: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sphere, sphere: Wordnik
  7. sphere: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -sphere, sphere: Wiktionary
  9. -sphere, sphere: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -sphere, sphere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sphere: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -sphere, sphere: Dictionary.com
  13. sphere: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sphere: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SPHERE, Sphere (American band), Sphere (Japanese band), Sphere (Polish band), Sphere (Website), Sphere (disambiguation), Sphere (film), Sphere (geometry), Sphere (novel), Sphere (organization), Sphere (website), Sphere, The Sphere (newspaper), The Sphere (social network), The Sphere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sphere: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sphere: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sphere: Rhymezone
  19. sphere: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sphere: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Sphere: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. sphere: Free Dictionary
  23. sphere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sphere: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. sphere: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sphere: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. -sphere: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sphere (geometry), sphere: Legal dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sphere (geometry), sphere: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sphere (geometry), -sphere, sphere: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. SPHERE: Acronym Finder

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sphere: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. sphere: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. Sphere: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. -sphere, sphere, sphere, sphere (metric space): PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  6. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sphere: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. sphere: Lighting Design Glossary

(Note: See sphered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mathematics) A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .
noun:  An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere; a round object, a ball.
noun:  (astronomy, now rare) The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.
noun:  (historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres).
noun:  (mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
noun:  (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
noun:  The natural, normal, or proper place (of something).
noun:  (geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .
noun:  (logic, dated) The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.
verb:  (transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
verb:  (transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.

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