hem·i·sphere

(hĕm′ĭ-sfîr′)

a. A half of a sphere bounded by a great circle.

b. A half of a symmetrical, approximately spherical object as divided by a plane of symmetry.

2. Either half of the celestial sphere as divided by the ecliptic, the celestial equator, or the horizon.

3. Either the northern or southern half of the earth as divided by the equator or the eastern or western half as divided by a meridian.

4. Anatomy

a. Either of the lateral halves of the cerebrum; a cerebral hemisphere.

b. Either of the lateral halves of the cerebellum; a cerebellar hemisphere.

hem′i·spher′ic (-sfîr′ĭk, -sfĕr′-), hem′i·spher′i·cal adj.

hem′i·spher′i·cal·ly adv.

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hemisphere

(ˈhɛmɪˌsfɪə)

1. (Mathematics) one half of a sphere

2. (Physical Geography)

a. half of the terrestrial globe, divided into northern and southern hemispheres by the equator or into eastern and western hemispheres by some meridians, usually 0° and 180°

b. a map or projection of one of the hemispheres

3. (Astronomy) either of the two halves of the celestial sphere that lie north or south of the celestial equator

4. (Anatomy) anatomy short for cerebral hemisphere

hemispheric, ˌhemiˈspherical adj

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hem•i•sphere

(ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪər)

n.

1. (often cap.) half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, esp. one of the halves into which the earth is divided.

2. a map or projection representing one of these halves.

3. a half of a sphere.

4. either of the lateral halves of the cerebrum.

5. the area within which something occurs or dominates; sphere; realm.

[1325–75; Middle English emysperie < Old French emispere < Latin hēmisphaerium < Greek hēmisphaírion. See hemi-, sphere]

hem`i•spher′ic (-ˈsfɛr ɪk) hem`i•spher′i•cal, adj.

hem·i·sphere

(hĕm′ĭ-sfîr′)

1. One half of a sphere, formed by a plane that passes through the center of the sphere.

2. Either the northern or southern half of the Earth as divided by the equator, or the eastern or western half as divided by a meridian.

3. One half of the celestial sphere. See cerebral hemisphere.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	hemisphere - half of the terrestrial globe eastern hemisphere, orient - the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earth New World, western hemisphere, occident - the hemisphere that includes North America and South America earth, globe, world - the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"
	2.	hemisphere - half of a sphere subfigure - a figure that is a part of another figure
	3.	hemisphere - either half of the cerebrum cerebral hemisphere neural structure - a structure that is part of the nervous system left brain, left hemisphere - the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body right brain, right hemisphere - the cerebral hemisphere to the right of the corpus callosum that controls the left half of the body cerebrum - anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans

Translations

نِصْف الكُرة الأرضِيَّه

polokoulehemisféra

halvkuglehemisfære

Halbkugel Hemisphäre

ημισφαίριο

hemisferio

aivopuoliskopallonpuoliskopuolipallo

hémisphère

félteke

norîur-/suîurhvel

emisfero emisfero settentrionale emiciclo emisferico

pusrutulio formospusrutulis

puslode

hemisférapologuľa

polobla

hemisfär

yarım küre

半球

hemisphere

[ˈhemɪsfɪəʳ] N (Geog) → hemisferio m

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hemisphere

[ˈhɛmɪsfɪə^r] n

(GEOGRAPHY) → hémisphère m northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere

[brain] → hémisphère m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hemisphere

n → Halbkugel f, → Hemisphäre f; (of brain) → Hemisphäre f, → Gehirnhälfte f; in the northern hemisphere → auf der nördlichen Halbkugel, in der nördlichen Hemisphäre

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hemisphere

[ˈhɛmɪsfɪəʳ] n → emisfero

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

hemisphere

(ˈhemisfiə) noun

one half of the Earth. Singapore and the British Isles are in the northern hemisphere.

ˌhemiˈspherical (-ˈsfe-) adjective

like half a ball in shape.

hem·i·sphere

n. hemisferio, mitad de una estructura u órgano de forma esférica.

hemisphere

n hemisferio

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From out of the meagerness of our censored histories we learned that for fifteen years after the cessation of diplomatic relations between the United States of North America and the belligerent nations of the Old World, news of more or less doubtful authenticity filtered, from time to time, into the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern.

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In other words, the eastern hemisphere dial was useless.

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What kind of spectacle would its hidden hemisphere present to our terrestrial spheroid?

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In the southern hemisphere, if we compare large tracts of land in Australia, South Africa, and western South America, between latitudes 25 deg and 35 deg, we shall find parts extremely similar in all their conditions, yet it would not be possible to point out three faunas and floras more utterly dissimilar.

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According to his own observations, Barbicane reckoned that they would land on her northern hemisphere, where stretch immense plains, and where mountains are rare.

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I had been cutting up some caper or other --I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as i had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless, --my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere. I felt dreadfully.

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.and let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

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The next day, 26th of January, we cut the equator at the eighty-second meridian and entered the northern hemisphere. During the day a formidable troop of sharks accompanied us, terrible creatures, which multiply in these seas and make them very dangerous.

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It was a part of the great system of granite mountains which forms one of the most important and striking features of North America, stretching parallel to the coast of the Pacific from the Isthmus of Panama almost to the Arctic Ocean; and presenting a corresponding chain to that of the Andes in the southern hemisphere. This vast range has acquired, from its rugged and broken character and its summits of naked granite, the appellation of the Rocky Mountains, a name by no means distinctive, as all elevated ranges are rocky.

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Whereby it is manifest that the northern tract of the world, is in nature the more martial region: be it in respect of the stars of that hemisphere; or of the great continents that are upon the north, whereas the south part, for aught that is known, is almost all sea; or (which is most apparent) of the cold of the northern parts, which is that which, without aid of discipline, doth make the bodies hardest, and the courages warmest.

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"Oh, Polly means the atmosphere and hemisphere, I s'pose," explained Dorothy.

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The native, first placing a calabash beneath the nose, as it were, of his curious-looking log-steed, for the purpose of receiving the grated fragments as they fall, mounts astride of it as if it were a hobby-horse, and twirling the inside of his hemispheres of cocoanut around the sharp teeth of the mother-of-pearl shell, the pure white meat falls in snowy showers into the receptacle provided.

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