crystal sphere

English

Noun

crystal sphere (plural crystal spheres)

  1. A crystal ball
  2. A celestial sphere; one of the nested concentric transparent spheres around the Earth in which celestial bodies such as stars and planets were said to be embedded in ancient and medieval Western cosmology, and whose rotation was said to produce the motion of such bodies.
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