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What is the adjective for spherizing?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs sphere and spherize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

spherical
  1. (geometry) Shaped like a sphere.
  2. (geometry) (no comparative or superlative) Of, or pertaining to, spheres.
  3. (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and two angles.
  4. (astrology) Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “This six-point perspective, with the six vertices of an octahedron serving as the vanishing points, becomes the basis of his spherical paintings.”
      “Within their vast spherical orbs lie tens of thousands of ancient stars, tightly packed like a scintillating mass of insects.”
      “To eliminate the residual aberration in the spherical lens, we need to increase the refractive index of the glass.”
spheric
  1. Spherical.
  2. Of or relating to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Two years later, J. J. Thomson modified Kelvin's model, having the electrons move in concentric circle within a positively charged spheric space.”
sphery
  1. (archaic) round; spherical; starlike
  2. (archaic) Of or relating to the celestial spheres.
spheral
  1. spherical
  2. spherically symmetric
  3. Examples:
    1. “Of the divine spheral music, the one is the chordal harmony, the other the consecutive harmony or melody.”
      “I could not conscientiously lead you to the altar, even a spheral altar, if I were not prepared to pay house rent and coal bills.”
      “That was to be filled with spheral music which lay under lock and bolt deep within his nature.”
spherulitic
  1. of or relating to spherulite
  2. containing spherulite
  3. Examples:
    1. “These aggregates scatter light, however, due to their amorphous nature, and would not be spherulitic or birefringent.”
      “The granular to spherulitic microstructure of Carinachites has been documented by several previous authors.”
      “They typically grow in two-dimensional fanlike and spherulitic arrays.”
sphereless
  1. (poetic) Without a sphere or spheres; planetless.
spheritic
  1. Relating to, or having the form of, a spherite.
spherulate
  1. Covered or set with spherules.
spherick
  1. Obsolete form of spheric.
spherelike
  1. Resembling a sphere.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The astronaut gazed in awe at the spherelike planet from the spaceship window.”
sphered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sphere
spherized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of spherize
spherizing
  1. present participle of spherize
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