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adj. - Not globular or orbicular.

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  • Section 12 treats spherical bodies, and Section 13, non-spherical bodies.
  • Admittedly, this results in a very odd shape non-spherical when mapped accordingly, but it is, in fact, truer to our mental construct.
  • Or given all the ways worlds might form in the universe some might be in some unusual topology (non-spherical) and then - what would that be like?
  • The non-spherical shape of deformed nuclei allows new collective, rotational degrees of freedom, as do also the collective vibrations of nucleons.
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