'Hemisphere' definitions:
Definition of 'hemisphere'
From: WordNet
noun
Half of the terrestrial globe
noun
Half of a sphere
noun
Either half of the cerebrum [syn: hemisphere, cerebral hemisphere]
Definition of 'Hemisphere'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere. [1913 Webster]
- He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster]
- 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hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air.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
Synonyms of 'hemisphere'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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