What's the difference between bubble and spherical?

Bubble


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
  • (n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
  • (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
  • (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
  • (n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
  • (n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
  • (n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
  • (n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
  • (n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
  • (n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (2) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
  • (3) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (4) Bubbles after N2-He-O2 dives contained substantially more N2 than He (up to 1.9 times more) compared to the dive mixture; bubbles after N2-Ar-O2 dives contained more Ar than N2 (up to 1.8 times more).
  • (5) There was more bubble formation in the eye cup with positively charged than with negatively charged substances.
  • (6) The surface activity of two surfactant preparations, Lipid Extract Surfactant (LES) and Survanta, was examined during adsorption and dynamic compression using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
  • (7) Private gardens in Belgravia, London, in the middle of a house price bubble.
  • (8) Bubble-free gels as thin as 25 microns can be routinely cast on this device.
  • (9) Following injection at pressures between 2.8 and 26.6 kPa, the mean PO2 of equilibrated saline containing an air bubble was 0.80 kPa higher than the mean value obtained at injection pressures of less than 2.8 kPa.
  • (10) On the point about whether the estate is “viable”: if the alternative is the land beneath it on the open market, for a private developer to pay bubble prices, then nothing is really viable.
  • (11) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
  • (12) During negative equilibrium gas in the bubble gradually simulates tissue gas with eventual shrinkage of the bubble.
  • (13) And none of them are making money, they are all buying revenue with huge war chests.” Patrick reckoned the 2.0 tech bubble will come to be defined by the unicorn.
  • (14) In summary, weight loss does not result from the gastric bubble alone.
  • (15) Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump Read more There’s the shrinking minority of Americans who believe he’s doing a good job.
  • (16) The unusual behavior characterized as "bubbling" was interpreted as either thermoregulation or a nectar concentration.
  • (17) Experiments show that the primary source of air bubbles in such a system is the drip chamber.
  • (18) Patients were randomly assigned either to receive the gastric bubble or to have a sham procedure.
  • (19) Training grounds during a World Cup turn out to be a strange little bubble of a world.
  • (20) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.

Spherical


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Spheric

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (2) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
  • (3) As a consequence of deformation from spherical-to-cylindrical shape in the microvasculature, demands for increased surface membrane area leads to increases in surface membrane tension above critical levels for rupture, and the cancer cells are rapidly and lethally damaged.
  • (4) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
  • (5) Equivalent viewing power (EVP), field of view, and working distance (WD) were calculated for 4 different magnifier equivalent powers, four magnifier-to-eye distances, and for uncorrected spherical ametropias varying from +20.00 to -20.00 D in 0.25 D steps.
  • (6) A sound source is commonly spherical, therefore solutions are found for the wave equation in spherical coordinates, giving a precise meaning to the 'azimuthal' and 'magnetic quantum number' analogy.
  • (7) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
  • (8) A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter.
  • (9) Anterior lenticonus is a rare condition, in which there is a conical or spherical protrusion of the anterior surface into the anterior chamber.
  • (10) These results suggest that the shapes of the two enzymes are more spherical in solution than the proposed structural model previously reported.
  • (11) Elementary spherical particles similar to those described in the mitochondria are found in isolated rat liver and spleen nuclear membranes.
  • (12) NF-L in 6 M-urea took the form of spherical particles with a diameter of about 12 nm.
  • (13) Later, melanocytes became spherical and had membrane bound, autophagosome-like compartments of pigment granules.
  • (14) Rotation time constants obtained from the dichroism decay are not consistent with a spherical shape, for either the holo- or core repressor.
  • (15) The mean spherical approximation (MSA) provides a simple and reliable method for computation of single ion activities.
  • (16) Neuron #1 contained large spherical electron-dense vesicles while neuron #2 contained smaller subspherical vesicles.
  • (17) The morphological unit of the regular array appeared to consist of four spherical subunits, each about 2 nm in diameter, which were arranged in a tetragonal pattern about 4.5 by 7.0 nm in dimension.
  • (18) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
  • (19) A simple closed-form solution is derived for a thin linearly elastic spherical model of the cornea.
  • (20) Levels of pregnenolone and progesterone in spherical pig blastocysts (near 4 and 15 microM respectively) exceeded respective levels in histotroph by about 400-fold.