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sphere
/ sfi(ə)r/
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n.
1.
a round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its center.
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an object having this shape; a ball or globe.
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a globe representing the earth.
∎ chiefly poetic/lit.
a celestial body.
∎ poetic/lit.
the sky perceived as a vault upon or in which celestial bodies are represented as lying.
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each of a series of revolving concentrically arranged spherical shells in which celestial bodies were formerly thought to be set in a fixed relationship.
2.
an area of activity, interest, or expertise:
his new wife's skill in the domestic sphere.
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a section of society or an aspect of life distinguished and unified by a particular characteristic:
political reforms to match those in the economic sphere.
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v. [tr.] archaic
enclose in or as if in a sphere.
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form into a rounded or perfect whole.
PHRASES:
music
(or harmony) of the spheres
the natural harmonic tones supposedly produced by the movement of the celestial spheres or the bodies fixed in them.
sphere of influence
(or interest)
a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
∎
a field or area in which an individual or organization has power to affect events and developments.
DERIVATIVES:
spher·al
/ -əl/ adj. ( archaic ).
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Sphere Drake straightening curves. (Sphere Drake Holdings Ltd.)
Magazine article from: Business Insurance; 11/25/1996; ; 700+ words
; HAMILTON, Bermuda - Sphere Drake Holdings Ltd. hopes to improve...justify higher ratings," he said. Sphere Drake also will explore ways to improve...pre-1993 Lloyd's related business. Sphere Drake recently announced that as part...
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Sphere.com and Clickability Team to Connect About.com Readers to the Over 1.3 Million Related Articles on Its Site.
PR Newswire; 7/31/2006; 700+ words
; SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Sphere, the emerging leader in blog search technology...million pieces of original content. By combining Sphere's ground breaking Sphere It(TM) contextual matching technology with Clickability...
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Why spheres of exchange?
Magazine article from: Ethnology; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...assigned to different spheres for transactional...items within the same sphere and readily calculate...things in different spheres are not immediately...etc.) from the sphere of wealth (valued objects), the spheres of exchange arrangement...
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Sphere Communications selects Lucent Worldwide Services for large scale IP telecommunications deployments; Sphere Communications adds global network integration services to its growing alliance portfolio in an agreement with Lucent Worldwide Services.
M2 Presswire; 10/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...4 October 2004-Lucent Technologies: Sphere Communications selects Lucent Worldwide...scale IP telecommunications deployments; Sphere Communications adds global network integration...Telephony Expo 2004, Los Angeles, Calif - Sphere Communications and Lucent Technologies...
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Sphere Communications Gets Approval from Department of Defense for Military IP-PBX Applications - Meets Demands for Security, Reliability and Performance.
Business Wire; 9/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...Agency (DISA) for PBX2 Certification Sphere Communications announces that the U...interoperability and information assurance testing of Sphere's IP-PBX enterprise telecommunications...enterprise telecommunications solution. The Sphere configuration consisted of its Sphericall...
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Sphere Communications Opens European Subsidiary.
PR Newswire; 4/17/2000; 700+ words
; ...Ill., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Sphere Communications Inc., the leader in network...England. The UK office will serve as Sphere Communication's operational base for...the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Sphere Communications offers the only distributed...
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Sphere Communications Appoints Dr. John Rasmus To Vice President of Business Development.
PR Newswire; 7/10/2000; 700+ words
; Telecom Veteran to Drive Sphere Communications' Business Development...Ill., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Sphere Communications Inc., the leader in...than 20 years of telecom experience to Sphere Communications and will be responsible...
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Sphere Communications and Adtech Global Solutions Announce Appointment of Ambassador Technical Services Incorporated To Sphere BCS Partner Program.
Business Wire; 8/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...Ill. & ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Sphere's Business Communications System IP...Affordable Prices For SMB Customers Sphere Communications and Adtech Global Solutions (AGS), providers of the Sphere Business Communications System (Sphere...
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Sphere Communications Closes $8 Million Round to Fund Expansion.
Business Wire; 7/19/2004; 700+ words
; LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. -- Sphere aligns new funding to expand on sales...telecommunications software for enterprises Sphere Communications, a leading enterprise...Participants in this series included Sphere's existing investors, several new...
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Sphere Communications Announces SphereCSE(TM) Communications Services Engine for OEMs and ISVs; Sphere opens its proven IP PBX software technology to enable fast development of custom-built and branded IP communications solutions.
Business Wire; 8/10/2006; 700+ words
; ...VoIP Developer Conference 2006--Sphere Communications announced today the availability...announced Graeme Robinson, President, Sphere Communications. SphereCSE, the core technology behind Sphere's award-winning Sphericall(TM) IP...
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Public Sphere
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...result was that the public sphere never managed to be as...actual existing public spheres in the past. He does...portrait of the public sphere. First, some feminists...the private and public spheres and its implication for...concern that the public sphere in wh
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Celestial Sphere: The Apparent Motions of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...the hypothetical celestial sphere provides an important tool...celestial objects. The celestial sphere describes an extension of the...celestial objects on a hypothetical sphere surrounding the earth. The...envisioned concentric crystalline spheres, centered around Earth, upon...
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Dyson Spheres
Book article from: Space Sciences
...asteroids to create a sphere. The Search for Dyson Spheres Searches have been...there may be Dyson Spheres already in existence...required to build a sphere of this magnitude...many as a Dyson Sphere. Not all proposed Dyson Spheres would need to be...
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sphere
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...plane goes through the center of the sphere, the circle is called a great circle of the sphere. It is the largest circle that can be drawn upon the sphere, and all great circles of the same or equal spheres are of equal size. The shortest distance...
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Gender: Separate Spheres for Men and Women
Book article from: American Eras
...belonged in what they called separate “ spheres. ” Women inhabited a sphere comprising the home, church, and social visits...industry, commerce, and politics. These separate spheres were especially well defined among the middle...
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