Hemisphere

Definition of Hemisphere

Hem´i`sphere

n.

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(Physics) two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; - used to illustrate the pressure of the air.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.

Related Words

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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