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/sfɪə/ · noun
(mathematics) A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. ..
Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere, he framed.
So 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.
Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere.
Resistless rolls the illimitable sphere, / And one great circle forms the unmeasured year.
ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare, Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.
It is more simplicitie to teach our children[…][t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare, before their owne.
They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.
sphere of influence
Use 2 sphere when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
2 sphere means (mathematics) A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. ..
Common synonyms include 2-sphere, orb, area, field.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere, he framed.
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