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Definition of Ball-shaped
1. Adjective. Having the shape of a sphere or ball. "Little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"
Similar to: Circular, Round
Derivative terms: Globe, Globosity, Globe, Globe, Globularness, Sphere, Sphere, Sphere, Sphericity, Sphere, Sphere, Sphericalness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ball-shaped
Literary usage of Ball-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... having a semi-cylindrical or ball shaped enlargement at its base, in combination
with a corresponding cup shaped socket, D, on the end of the ..."
2. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"à gaz, gas connection (having a ball-shaped part to which one or more stopcocks are
... à robinets, a ball-shaped connection (for gas or the like) to which ..."
3. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1890)
"The discharge-pipe E. having a semi-cylindrical or ball-shaped enlargement ...
or a discharge-pipe having a ball- shaped enlargement at its base ; that his ..."
4. Object Lessons for Infants by Vincent T. Murché (1896)
"Why do we say these things are ball-shaped 1" " Because they are round all over
like a ... It would mean ball-shaped; because sphere means the same as ball. ..."
5. The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1883)
"Bell's instruments, as the name he gave them indicates, were ball-shaped or ...
The ball-shaped head was afterwards changed to one of an olive form. ..."
6. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Cast-bronze knobs are made egg-shaped or ball-shaped, ... iron knobs are also
made ball-shaped, which usually adds a little more to the cost. ..."
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