Spherical fuzzy set (SFS) as one of several non-standard fuzzy sets, it introduces a number triplet (a,b,c) that satisfies the requirement a 2 þ b 2 þ c 2 1 to express membership grades. Due to the expression, SFS has a more extensive description space when describing fuzzy information, which attracts more attention in scientific research and engineering practice. Just for this reason, how to describe the fuzzy information more reasonably and perfectly is the hot that scholars pay close

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... n to. In view of this hot, in this paper, the notion of spherical hesitant fuzzy set is introduced as a generalization of spherical fuzzy sets. Some basic operations using sine trigonometric function are presented for spherical hesitant fuzzy sets. We define spherical hesitant fuzzy weighted average and spherical hesitant fuzzy weighted geometric aggregation operators. Based on these new aggregation operators, we propose a method for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in the spherical hesitant fuzzy information. Besides, a numerical real-life application about solid waste collection system selection is provided to demonstrate the validity of the proposed approaches along with relevant discussions, the merits of proposed approaches are also analyzed by validity test.