Word Meanings - HEMISPHEROIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.
Related words: (words related to HEMISPHEROIDAL)
- APPROXIMATION
1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - APPROXIMATOR
One who, or that which, approximates. - APPROXIMATIVE
Approaching; approximate. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ly, adv. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ness, n. - RESEMBLE
sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak. - RESEMBLABLE
Admitting of being compared; like. Gower. - HEMISPHERE
1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. 2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture. 3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere. He died . . . mourned - APPROXIMATE
1. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling. 2. Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities , those which are nearly, but not, equal. - RESEMBLER
One who resembles. - APPROXIMATELY
With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly. - RESEMBLANCE
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. - NONRESEMBLANCE
Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.