Hemisphere

Definitions: Hemisphere

Hemisphere

Noun

1. Half of the terrestrial globe.

2. Half of a sphere.

3. Either half of the cerebrum.

Date "hemisphere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Hemisphere

Domain	Definitions
Science	Half of the Earth, usually conceived as resulting from the division of the globe into two equal parts, north and south or east and west. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Hemisphere

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The term hemisphere is used in three different meanings:

one-half of the Earth (or other planetary or stellar body)
one-half of any spherical object, divided at a great circle
one of the two principal parts of the brain (left or right hemisphere)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hemisphere."

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Synonym: Hemisphere

Synonym: cerebral hemisphere (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hemisphere

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Region	Noun: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale; (limit); compartment, department; clearing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hemisphere

English words defined with "hemisphere": eastern hemisphere ♦ left hemisphere ♦ northern hemisphere ♦ right hemisphere ♦ southern hemisphere ♦ western hemisphere. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hemisphere": acidity profile, Agiwarn, anticyclonic rotation, ataxic motor aphasia ♦ baric wind law, buys ballot's law, Buys-Ballot's law ♦ Cerebral Infarction, Cyclonic Circulation, cyclonic rotation, cyclonic shear ♦ Dominance, Cerebral ♦ Ferrel's law, Fixed-Tilt Array, Free Trade Agreement of the Americas ♦ GOES DCS, Gondwana ♦ Hematoma, Subdural, hemisphere broadcast, hemisphere exchange centre, Hemispheric Ceilings, Holme mud sampler ♦ IASI, Intertropical Convergence Zone ♦ LMC, Longwave Trough, low or low-pressure system ♦ microite, Misnomers ♦ Pan American Health Organization, Partners in Flight, Pinta, polar stratospheric clouds, polar vortex, prevailing westerlies ♦ Roaring Forties ♦ SMC, Solar Noon, subtropical anticyclones, subtropical ridge, suction cup, Sunspace, synchronous rotation ♦ trade winds, True South ♦ vacuum cup, veering wind, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Volunteers in Service To America. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Hemisphere" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (hemisphere).

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Modern Usage: Hemisphere

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Holland in the Western Hemisphere (1942)

The Grain That Built a Hemisphere (1942)

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Commercial Usage: Hemisphere

Domain	Title
Books	Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas. A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western Hemisphere (reference) Laws of Contract Bridge, 1981: The International Code As Promulgated in the Western Hemisphere by American Contract Bridge League. (reference) Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds (reference) The Looking-Glass Garden: Plants and Gardens of the Southern Hemisphere (reference) The Post-Nafta Political Economy: Mexico and the Western Hemisphere (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Hemisphere (reference) Washington Report On The Hemisphere (reference) Western Hemisphere Flight Guide Supplement (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Standard Deviants - World Geography, Southern Hemisphere (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Womad '99 Southern Hemisphere [IMPORT] [LIVE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Hemisphere

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Photo Album: Hemisphere

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Position emission tomography (PET) of cerebral glucose utilization in a normal individual. This tomogram is through the upper part of the cerebral hemisphere. Note discrimination between gray matter (yellow-red color) and white matter (green-blue color) which uses less glucose.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Four-frame mosaic of Europa's northern hemisphere (including the north pole).Credit: NASA.
	Trailing hemisphere of Europa in "natural" and false color.Credit: NASA.		A happy face cactus in the Galapagos Islands During western hemisphere magnetic project.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Map of the 39th Parallel Arc The first great geodetic arc in the western hemisphere.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Sunrise at the Point Udall Millennium Monument. Here the new day begins for the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come.".Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Point Udall, the easternmost point of U. S. territory in the Western Hemisphere. Note wave refraction patterns in the shallow water to the left of the point.Credit: America's Coastlines.		PC-8 on deck of R/V Undersea Hunter-- bow hemisphere is made of glass.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).
	Applications Technology Satellite 3 (ATS-3) image of the western hemisphere. The ATS satellites were forerunners of the GOES family of satellites. Tropical Storm Becky is churning in the NE Gulf of Mexico.Credit: NOAA in Space.		A composite image of the northern hemisphere obtained from ESSA 5 polar orbiting satellite data. Eight tropical storms are active in this image.Credit: NOAA in Space.
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Familiar Quotations: Hemisphere

Author	Quotation
President Lyndon B. Johnson	We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
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Historic Usage: Hemisphere

Author	Date	Quotation
John F. Kennedy	1961	And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (reference)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Hemisphere

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Periodic epidemics have occurred in the Western Hemisphere for over 200 years. (references)
		For example, a stroke in the right hemisphere of the brain can leave the left arm and leg paralyzed. (references)
		Leptospirosis continues to re-emerge as a notable source of morbidity and mortality in the Western Hemisphere. (references)
Business		This is the second such statement signed to date in the Western Hemisphere. (references)
		The countries fueling wind energy's growth throughout the decade have been located in the Northern Hemisphere. (references)
		Lulea-Kallax Airport in northern Sweden is being promoted as a new cargo hub for flights over the North Pole and Northern Hemisphere. (references)
Civil Liberties	Panama	In September an OAS report on the status of freedom of speech in the hemisphere emphasized the repressive attitude of the country's judicial system toward the media. (references)
Economic History	Lesotho	Southern hemisphere seasons are reversed. (references)
	Haiti	Haiti has long been the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. (references)
Political Economy	HAITI	Haiti already is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. (references)
	CANADA	This is more than U.S. trade with the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and almost equal to total U.S. trade with the entire 15-country European Union. (references)
	HONDURAS	Despite recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in October 1998, Honduras is still one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere with low per capita income and education indicators. (references)
Trade	Trinidad	Trinidad and Tobago's sovereign credit risk rating is among the highest in the hemisphere. (references)
	Panama	Most Free Zone merchandise is transshipped from Panama to other parts of the Western Hemisphere and Europe. (references)
	Haiti	The largest international port in Haiti is located in Port-au-Prince, which reportedly has the highest user fees in the hemisphere. (references)
Travel	Oman	International rates are very high -- $1.30 per minute peak rate to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. (references)
	New Zealand	The seasons are reversed from the Northern Hemisphere with summer weather during the 5-month November to March period. (references)
	Argentina	Travelers should note that since Argentina is in the Southern Hemisphere, its seasons are the reverse of those in the Northern Hemisphere. (references)
Worker Rights	Colombia	The DAS reported in 2000 that the country is one of the three most common countries of origin of trafficking victims in the Western Hemisphere; in 2000 an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 Colombian trafficking victims were overseas. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Hemisphere

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	A strong hope was entertained that peace would ere this have been concluded between Spain and the independent governments south of the United States in this hemisphere.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Unfortunately, many of the nations of this hemisphere are still self-tormented by domestic dissensions.
Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929	With a great deal of hesitation, we have responded to appeals for help to maintain order, protect life and property, and establish responsible government in some of the small countries of the Western Hemisphere.
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	While we have had wars in the Western Hemisphere, yet on the whole the record is in encouraging contrast with that of other parts of the world.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	That is true in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, as well as in the Western Hemisphere.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	But Communist domination in this Hemisphere can never be negotiated.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	In public statements and in private communications, to adversaries and to friends, in Rome and Warsaw, in Paris and Tokyo, in Africa and throughout this hemisphere, America has made her position abundantly clear.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We've won new respect in this hemisphere with the Panama Canal treaties.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Human freedom is on the march, and nowhere more so than our own hemisphere.
George Bush	1989-1993	Here in our own hemisphere it is time for all the people of the Americas, North and South, to live in freedom.
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Usage Frequency: Hemisphere

"Hemisphere" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.58% of the time. "Hemisphere" is used about 885 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.58%	837	8,397
Noun (proper)	5.19%	46	50,285
Noun (common)	0.23%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	885	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Hemisphere

Expressions using "hemisphere": cerebral hemisphere ♦ eastern hemisphere ♦ hemisphere broadcast ♦ hemisphere exchange centre ♦ left hemisphere ♦ northern hemisphere ♦ right hemisphere ♦ southern hemisphere ♦ western hemisphere. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "hemisphere": hemisphere-specific, hemisphere-wide.
	Ending with "hemisphere": left-hemisphere, lower-hemisphere, right-hemisphere.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hemisphere

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hemisphere	104
hemisphere map western	53
western hemisphere	39
brain hemisphere	30
hemisphere magazine	19
eastern hemisphere	19
hemisphere southern	19
dancer hemisphere	18
furniture hemisphere	16
right hemisphere	16
hemisphere map southern	16
hemisphere northern	16
hemisphere map northern	11
3d hemisphere	8
hemisphere left right	8
cerebral hemisphere	8
hemisphere map	6
hemisphere rush	5
waterman hemisphere	4
bank hemisphere	4
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Modern Translations: Hemisphere

Language		Translations for "hemisphere"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		hemisferë qiellore, hemisferë, kupë qiellore (concave, dome, firmament, heaven, vault). (various references)

Arabic		‏نصف كرة, ‏عالم (expert, kingdom, learned, lettered, province, scholar, universe, walk, world), ‏خريطة تمثل نصف الكرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		хемисфера, мозъчна половина, полусфера, полукълбо. (various references)

Chinese		半球 . (various references)

Czech		polokoule. (various references)

Danish		hjernehemisfaere (cerebral hemisphere, hemispherium), hemisfaerisk udvekslingscenter (hemisphere exchange centre), hemisfaerisk udsendelse (hemisphere broadcast), hemisfærisk temperatur (hemisphere temperature), halvkugletemperatur (hemisphere temperature), vinterhalvkugle (winter hemisphere), underordnede hemisfaere (inferior hemisphere), sydlig halvkugle (Southern Hemisphere), sommerhalvkugle (summer hemisphere), nordlig halvkugle (northern hemisphere), ikke-dominante hemisfaere (inferior hemisphere), dominerende hemisfaere (dominant hemisphere), dominante hemisfaere (dominant hemisphere). (various references)

Dutch		hemisfeer (cerebral hemisphere, hemispherium), halfrond. (various references)

Esperanto		hemisfero. (various references)

Farsi		نیم کره , نیم گوی , اقلیم (Continent). (various references)

Finnish		puolipallo, maapallon puolisko. (various references)

French		hémisphère. (various references)

German		halbkugel (hemispheres), Hemisphere. (various references)

Greek		ημισφαίριο. (various references)

Hebrew		חצי כ�"ור. (various references)

Hungarian		félgömb. (various references)

Italian		emisfero (haemisphere). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		半球 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		は�"きゅう (half holiday, small bow). (various references)

Korean		반구. (various references)

Manx		lieh-chruinney. (various references)

Norwegian		halvkule. (various references)

Pig Latin		emispherehay

Portuguese		hemisfério (hemispheric). (various references)

Romanian		emisferã. (various references)

Russian		полушарие (semisphere). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hemisfera, polulopta. (various references)

Spanish		hemisferio. (various references)

Swedish		halvklot. (various references)

Thai		ซีกโลก. (various references)

Turkish		yarımküre, yarıküre. (various references)

Ukranian		півкуля. (various references)

Vietnamese		b� n cầu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hemisphere

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hemisphere": hemispheres. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hemisphere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hemiphere, hemishere, hemishpere, hemishphere, hemispere, hemispher, Hemsiphere. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hemisphere"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hemisphere" (pronounced he"musfi'r)
6	-m u s f i' r	atmosphere.
5	-u s f i' r	stratosphere.
4	-s f i' r	biosphere.
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Anagrams: Hemisphere

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-h-i-m-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: ephemeris.
	-2 letters: emperies, epimeres, preemies.
	-3 letters: emeries, empires, emprise, epimere, epimers, hempier, imphees, imprese, meshier, peeries, preemie, premies, premise, seepier, spireme.
	-4 letters: emeers, empire, epimer, hempie, herpes, imphee, peerie, perish, premie, primes, rehems, remise, reship, seemer, sempre, shrimp, simper, sphere, spirem.
	-5 letters: eerie, emeer, emirs, epees, heirs, hemes, hemps, heres, herms, hires, meres, mires, miser, peers, peise, peris, perms, perse, piers, prees, prese, pries, prime, prims, prise, prism, rehem, resee, rimes, ripes, sheep, sheer, shier, shire, siree, speer, speir, sperm, spier, spire, spree.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-h-i-m-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: hemispheres.
	+4 letters: chemotherapies.
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