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UK
/hˈɛmɪsfˌiə/
]
[ US /ˈhɛmɪsˌfɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛmɪsˌfɪɹ/ ]
NOUN
- half of the terrestrial globe
- either half of the cerebrum
- half of a sphere
How To Use hemisphere In A Sentence
- Everything grows very slowly there and all northern hemisphere herbs are grown under shade cloth - the herbs can't manage the intense dry heat of midsummer.
- anisotropy," has been seen from the Northern Hemisphere by previous experiments, she says, but its source is still a mystery. Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
- What we will learn over the next five weeks is whether it is the whole southern hemisphere that remains significantly ahead, or just one nation within it. Times, Sunday Times
- I will guess that the hypothesis is that the Earth enters a deglaciation period because of orbital parameters deglaciation occurs when the northern hemisphere winter is extra-cold and the northern hemisphere summer is extra-warm. "Crisis = opportunity + danger."
- However, since the Chinese language combines sound and shape, both hemispheres are used in speaking Chinese.
- The recent extent of the Northern Hemisphere tree-ring densitometric network currently under construction which forms the basis of the results discussed in this paper. A Briffa Collation « Climate Audit
- In fact, this is a difference between the northern and southern hemispheres. Times, Sunday Times
- It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful.
- The southern hemisphere winter is turning unusually cold. Times, Sunday Times
- As I note in the comments, I actually think commissurotomy cases are one more evidence that personal identity is not reducible to psychological continuity: people whose hemispheres have been split act almost exactly like you do. Split Something-or-Other