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        "From Middle English spere, from Old French sphere, from Late Latin sphēra, earlier Latin sphaera (“ball, globe, celestial sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), of unknown origin. Not related to superficially similar Persian سپهر (sepehr, “sky”) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)."
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              "mean": "(mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter ."
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              "mean": "A spherical physical object; a globe or ball. \n1667,  John Milton,  “Book VII”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere, he framed.\n2011, Piers Sellers, The Guardian, 6 July:\nSo your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere, and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it."
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              "mean": "(astronomy, now rare) The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded. \n1635, John Donne, \"His parting form her\":\nThough cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere.\n1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 190:\nResistless rolls the illimitable sphere, / And one great circle forms the unmeasured year."
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              "mean": "(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). \nc. 1587–1588,  ,  Tamburlaine the Great.    The First Part , part 1, 2nd edition, London:     Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as  Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare,Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.\n1603,  Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book 1, London:    Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC, page 153:It is more simplicitie to teach our children  he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare, before their owne.\n1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:\nThey understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable."
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              "mean": "(mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc."
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              "mean": "(figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain. \n1834,  L E L,  Francesca Carrara. , volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 203:...while his sweet and gentle niece would be a charming companion for Francesca; and he thought, with a glow of affection long unfelt, that Lucy Aylmer must inevitably make a friend whose future kindness might add much to her happiness. Both were at present placed out of their sphere: but the one would in all probability have it greatly in her power to cherish and aid the other.\n1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20:\nThey thought – originally on grounds derived from religion – that each thing or person had its or his proper sphere, to overstep which is ‘unjust’."
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              "mean": "(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 ."
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              "mean": "(logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.\nc. 1602,  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.\n1847,  Alfred Tennyson,  “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in  The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC:sphered Whole"
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              "mean": "ball (in topology)\nMathworld article on the sphere\nPlanetMath article on the sphere"
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