Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A solid imperfectly or approximately spherical.

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  • noun mathematics, physics Any of a set of spherical shells, one inside the other

Etymologies

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From sub- +‎ sphere

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Examples

  • In a recent Matt Cutts blog post (for the unaware: Matt Cutts is a Google engineer, one relatively famous in this admittedly rarified subsphere of society) the great sage introduced the META "NOODP" tag, and how it can help webmasters control, somewhat, the appearance of their results in Google.

    StraightUpSearch 2009

  • In a recent Matt Cutts blog post (for the unaware: Matt Cutts is a Google engineer, one relatively famous in this admittedly rarified subsphere of society) the great sage introduced the META "NOODP" tag, and how it can help webmasters control, somewhat, the appearance of their results in Google.

    StraightUpSearch 2009

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