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[syn: hemisphere, cerebral hemisphere]
The 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can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the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
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hemisphere
n 1: half of the terrestrial globe
2: half of a sphere
3: either half of the cerebrum [syn: hemisphere, cerebral
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