Hemisphere
['hemɪsfɪə] or ['hɛmɪsfɪr]
Definition
(noun.) either half of the cerebrum.
(noun.) half of the terrestrial globe.
(noun.) half of a sphere.
Typist: Louis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.
(n.) Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.
(n.) The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
Typed by Jaime
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Half-globe, half-sphere.
Editor: Megan
Definition
n. a half-sphere: half of the globe or a map of it.—adjs. Hemispher′ic -al.—n. Hemisphē′roid the half of a spheroid.—adj. Hemispheroi′dal.—Eastern and Western hemispheres the eastern and western halves of the terrestrial globe the former including Europe Asia and Africa; the latter the Americas.
Editor: Marilyn
Examples
- So conversely it will be with the northern hemisphere, while the southern passes through a glacial period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The whole hemisphere will shine brighter, and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Our friendship has been all clear sunshine, without the least cloud in its hemisphere. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He announced that the United States would regard any extension of the European system in the Western Hemisphere as a hostile act. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Cliffs o' Albion, and t' other hemisphere! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This is one of the natural wonders of the southern hemisphere and is much visited by tourists traveling through New Zealand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One hemisphere will have a short hot summer and a very cold winter, and the other a long cold summer and a briefer warmish winter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Crude: of course he was crude; he had a hemisphere for his canvas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He unfolded a conception of international relationships that came like a gospel, like the hope of a better world, to the whole eastern hemisphere. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An important public character arising in that hemisphere, shall I be told that its influence will not be felt at home? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- First this hemisphere where we live; then the other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The little quiet Yorkshire girl is a lonely emigrant in some region of the southern hemisphere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I'm smothered if the opera house isn't your proper hemisphere. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The original pump and the Magdeburg hemispheres are still preserved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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