sphericalness en · NOUN
Etymology
From spherical + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality or state of being spherical.
Before we get into the Jabulani, let’s look at an older football. Here is a picture of a 1950 football from application engineers at Phase Vision. They used an advanced 800 DBE scanner to graphically display sphericalness in a color-coded image of a ball.
2022 June 24, Sophia Eiley, “The Jabulani: Why Footballs Can be Too Round”, in STEM Fellowship, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2024: