roundadjective(CIRCULAR)

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Geometrical shapes
-cornered
circularly
congruently
conic
cuboid
cylindrically
lozenge
orbicular
ovally
ovoid
parallelogram
pentagon
polytope
prism
pyramid
quadrilateral
rectangle
rectangular
rhombus
three-dimensional

spherical | American Dictionary

spherical
adjective
us/ˈsfɪr·ɪ·kəl, ˈsfer-/
round, like a ball:
The earth is not perfectly spherical.

spherically

adverbus/ˈsfɪr·ɪk·li, ˈsfer-/

Examples of spherical

spherical
He possibly tried the same experiment also with inclined planes in a spherical container with an equally negative result.
The retained center of such a removed spherical neighborhood is not visible in the three-dimensional subspace in which the bounding 2-sphere lives.
These solutions correspond to an approximately spherical interface drifting slowly towards the boundary, without changing its shape.
Our computations show that the asymptotic drop shape consists of a compact, nearly spherical drop that encloses a spike of entrained ambient fluid.
The different behaviour is evidently due to the very large spherical roughness used, although the reasons are not entirely clear.
It is assumed that the spherical shape of the shell remains unchanged, excluding its bottom segment.
This makes it possible to take all advantages of the spherical hohlraum.
Consider a rotating spherical target, which rolls down along the layering channel.
Each sensor is serially displayed between the linear actuator end and the swivel (spherical joint).
These include direct measurements of the effect beam-smoothing techniques have on laser beam nonuniformity and on both planar and spherical targets.
Different constructions have been suggested for a spherical robot.
In spherical coordinates only the azimuthal component of v is non-zero.
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