hemisphere

3 definitions found

hemisphere - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hemisphere \Hem"i*sphere\, n. [L. hemisphaerium, Gr. ?; ? half =
     ? sphere: cf. F. h['e]misph[`e]re. See Hemi-, and
     Sphere.]
     1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided
        by a plane passing through its center.
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     2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same
        in a map or picture.
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     3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
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              He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. --J. P.
                                                    Peters.
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     Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain.
  
     Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups
        forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air
        can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the
        pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto
        von Guericke at Magdeburg. Hemispheric

hemisphere - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hemisphere
      n 1: half of the terrestrial globe
      2: half of a sphere
      3: either half of the cerebrum [syn: hemisphere, cerebral   hemisphere
         ]

hemisphere - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "hemisphere":
     ambit, arena, bailiwick, beat, border, borderland, circle, circuit,
     demesne, department, domain, dominion, field, fifty percent,
     fifty-fifty, half, half-and-half, judicial circuit, jurisdiction,
     march, mediety, moiety, orb, orbit, pale, precinct, province,
     realm, round, semicircle, semisphere, sphere, walk