 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hemisphere
noun
1: half of the terrestrial globe
2: half of a sphere
3: either half of the cerebrum [syn: {cerebral hemisphere}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hemisphere \Hem"i*sphere\, noun [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.
2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same
in a map or picture.
3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. --J. P.
Peters.
{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can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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