So the volume of space in the Halo is 4 billion times as large as the sphere enclosing the nine known planets.

A notable jug found in a female burial of the fifth century BC, has a sphere enclosing a lightning bolt on which there is a stylized human figure in mourning, surrounded by seven stars, now in the National Archaeological Museum of Melfi.

Kaleton made a single gesture and the world which was the Professor's study vanished, became a darkened sphere enclosing only himself and the magus.

The sphere enclosing all the un-balanced charge of a hydration cluster is required to be larger than the sphere enclosing a naked ion.

She pointed toward the shining arc of a dimensional sphere enclosing some relic of the ancient city; shading my eyes, I could make out a weathered stone wall within, and a knot of people.

O'Layle's world was a blister of moderate-grade hyperfiber punctuated with little diamond eyes--a nearly perfect sphere enclosing layers of recycling equipment and automated beacons, finger reactors and streamlined libraries, plus a minimal navigational system and a single holo projector.

A snow globe (also called a" waterglobe", "snowstorm", or "snowdome") is a transparent sphere, usually made of glass, enclosing a miniaturized scene of some sort, often together with a model of a landscape.

The inflatable sphere enclosing the projector and fixed Gemini capsule mockup also displayed star images.