Definition of hemisphere

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Hemisphere (n.) A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center..

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Hemisphere :: Hemisphere (n.) The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
West :: West (n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident..
Pinus :: Pinus (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine..
Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..
Lee :: Lee (n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a..
Hercules :: Hercules (n.) A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra..
Dualism :: Dualism (n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
Santalaceous :: Santalaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere..
Equator :: Equator (n.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres..
Vallecula :: Vallecula (n.) A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum..
Cassiopeia :: Cassiopeia (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia..
Zenith :: Zenith (n.) That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
Antichthon :: Antichthon (n.) Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres.
Hemisphere :: Hemisphere (n.) A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center..
Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes..
Auriga :: Auriga (n.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella..
Hemisphere :: Hemisphere (n.) Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture..
Rainbow :: Rainbow (n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain..
Toucan :: Toucan (n.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
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