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    geometry, a spherical segment is the solid defined by cutting a sphere or a ball with a pair of parallel planes. It can be thought of as a spherical cap with...
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    In geometry, a spherical cap or spherical dome is a portion of a sphere or of a ball cut off by a plane. It is also a spherical segment of one base, i...
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    Sphere (redirect from Spherical)
    spades: Spheres Hemisphere Spherical cap Spherical lune Spherical polygon Spherical sector Spherical segment Spherical wedge Spherical zone 3-sphere Affine...
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    In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system specifies a given point in three-dimensional space by using a distance and two angles as its three coordinates...
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    2D figure. Spherical cap Spherical segment Spherical wedge Weisstein, Eric W. "Spherical sector". MathWorld. Weisstein, Eric W. "Spherical cone". MathWorld...
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  • bounded by two end points Circular segment, the region of a circle cut off from the rest by a secant or chord Spherical segment, the solid defined by cutting...
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    In geometry, a line segment is a part of a straight line that is bounded by two distinct endpoints (its extreme points), and contains every point on the...
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    Spherical geometry or spherics (from Ancient Greek σφαιρικά) is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere or the n-dimensional surface of...
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    spherical polygon is a polygon on the surface of the sphere. Its sides are arcs of great circles—the spherical geometry equivalent of line segments in...
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    adjacent angle. More precisely, according to Lexell's theorem, given a spherical segment [ A , B ] {\textstyle [A,B]} as a fixed side and a number 0 ∘ < E...
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    {S_{\mathrm {l} }}{S_{\mathrm {s} }}}={\frac {\alpha }{2\pi }}\,.} Spherical cap Spherical segment Ungula A. ^ A distinction is sometimes drawn between the terms...
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    locating the centroid of a planar shape that contains circular segments. Chord (geometry) Spherical cap Circular sector Mathematics distinguishes when necessary...
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    third spherical segment, called an add segment, found on the front surface of the lens. Steeper and more convergent than the base curve, the add segment combines...
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    The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope...
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    In four-dimensional geometry, the spherinder, or spherical cylinder or spherical prism, is a geometric object, defined as the Cartesian product of a 3-ball...
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  • The roughly spherical shape of Earth can be empirically evidenced by many different types of observation, ranging from ground level, flight, or orbit...
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    the distance between the satellite and the aircraft, resulting in a spherical segment extending upward from the Earth's surface that is equidistant from...
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  • ANN spheroidize anneal SPOTFACE Spot facing SR spherical radius Radius of a sphere or spherical segment. SS or S/S stainless steel; supersede 1. Stainless...
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    Wave equation (redirect from Spherical wave)
    translating and summing spherical waves. Let φ(ξ, η, ζ) be an arbitrary function of three independent variables, and let the spherical wave form F be a delta...
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  • path is, in fact, the spherical geometry equivalent of a path along a line segment in the plane; a great circle is a spherical geodesic. More familiar...
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    spherical geometry, a spherical circle (often shortened to circle) is the locus of points on a sphere at constant spherical distance (the spherical radius)...
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    cacti consisting of indeterminate branches or determinate terete or spherical segments. Synapomorphies of Opuntioideae include small deciduous, barbed spines...
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  • hold. Instead, as in spherical geometry, there are no parallel lines since any two lines must intersect. However, unlike in spherical geometry, two lines...
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  • beads were made in a variety of shapes like discs, cylindrical, spherical, segmented or barrel-like. Softer materials like steatite could be moulded easily...
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    In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It...
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    represents a cross section through a segment of a polygonal wedge. The wedges are fitted together to form a spherical device. The exploding-bridgewire detonator...
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  • finite cylinders with flat bases, finite cones, finite paraboloids, spherical segments, and finite thin wires. This theory is now known as the Physical Theory...
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  • entognathous hexapoda with moniliform antennae (antenna with equally sized spherical segments that looks like a string of beads). They have two abdominal, pincer-like...
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  • lists solids derived from a sphere. Dome Spherical cap Spherical sector Spherical segment Spherical shell Spherical wedge Ellipsoid Spheroid Solid bounded...
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    The Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) is the name given to the components of the International Space Station (ISS) constructed in Russia and operated by the...
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