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• a  of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere
  spherical geometry
• s  having the shape of a sphere or ball
  a spherical object

• Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful as observation posts for Army and Navy operations alike, and spherical balloons may .
• WINNING WORD: staphylococci DEFINITION: (plural) Any of a genus of spherical Gram-positive bacteria that generally occur in irregular clusters of short chains: the pathogenic .
• It turns out to be a spherical particle almost exactly a millionth of an inch in diameter.

• ball-shaped
• global
• globose
• globular
• orbicular
• spheric

• nonspherical

News & Articles

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• Synergy Biomedical Launches BioSphere Putty, a Next Generation Bioactive Bone Graft
  COLLEGEVILLE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synergy Biomedical introduces a new bioactive bone graft (BioSphere Putty) that utilizes spherical particle technology to improve bone formation.
  June 18, 2013 - Business Wire
• Björk Sports Wild Spiked Headpiece in Concert
  Well, here's one way to look sharp! On the final leg of her "Biophilia" tour, Björk performed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles—wearing none other than a spherical, spiky...
  June 13, 2013 - E! Online
• PICTURES: What Interns Really See In Their First Week At Google
  The Mountain View Google HQ is plenty quirky, filled with unique features such as an outdoor volleyball court, spherical work stations, and a campus filled with Android sculptures and other art.
  June 13, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• Henrik Wann Jensen in ScienceMode
  The Spherical Torus is closely related to the [ITER] tokamak design, and experiments planned for the next several years in the NSTX facility promise many exciting discoveries that should directly impact our ability to understand the new plasma... Raymond L. Orbach http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_L._Orbach&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEmSSKdSFpb2jYQ7AUMaTt-5gDfwA PhysicsToday.org http://www.google.com/url?q=http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2008/05/us_national_compact_stellarato.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHM_Lm29RRDutoNQlFXQg4r7SYNTg May 23, 2008 93102 123702 spherical We have the first complete, bottom-up theoretical model that addresses the shortcoming of the Lorenz-Mie theory for participating media. It allows us to render computer graphics for absorbing materials and with non-spherical particles based on the...
• Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in San Mateo County Times
  Truth is not linear, it is spherical,Shankar says. "So it has to be contradictory. Anything that is spherical is always contradictory."