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A Sphere
Asphere is a round,three-dimensional shape. Allpoints on the edge of the sphere are at the samedistance from the center. The distance from the center is called theradius of the sphere. A real-world sphere is called aglobe if it is large (such as the Earth), and as aball if it is small, like anassociation football.
Common things that have the shape of a sphere are basketballs, superballs, and playground balls. TheEarth and theSun are nearlyspherical, meaning sphere-shaped.
A sphere is the three-dimensionalanalog of acircle.