Spherically complete field

In mathematics, a field "K" with an absolute value is called spherically complete if the intersection of every decreasing sequence of balls (in the sense of the metric induced by the absolute value) is nonempty:
The definition can be adapted also to a field "K" with a valuation "v" taking values in an arbitrary ordered abelian group: ("K","v") is spherically complete if every collection of balls that is totally ordered by inclusion has a nonempty intersection.
Spherically complete fields are important in nonarchimedean functional analysis, since many results analogous to theorems of classical functional analysis require the base field to be spherically complete.