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Definition: Hemispheric |
HemisphericAdjective1. Of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hemispheric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Adjective: convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting; Verb: bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated, claviform; hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform; papulous, papilose; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous; cornute, odontoid; lentiform, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hemispheric |
| Specialty definitions using "hemispheric": hemisphere broadcast, hemisphere exchange centre. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hemispheric view of Venus produced by Magellan. Credit: NASA. |
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| "Museum of Science of Valencia" by Jon Urtxegi Commentary: "The Museum of Science of Valencia is sited next to the Hemispheric building, and next to the Oceanograhpic too." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Venezuela | Hemispheric cooperation and integration are two pillars of President Chavez's foreign policy. (references) |
Bolivia | Bolivia traditionally has maintained normal diplomatic relations with all hemispheric states except Chile. (references) | |
The Bahamas | A major challenge for Bahamians as the next century approaches will be to prepare for hemispheric free trade. (references) | |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The government knows that the move toward hemispheric free trade by the year 2005 will involve restructuring its revenue sources. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | In addition, we have increased twelvefold our Spanish and Portuguese-language broadcasting in Latin America, and improved Hemispheric trade and defense. |
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| "Hemispheric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hemispheric" is used about 67 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 67 | 40,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hemispheric": inter-hemispheric, intra-hemispheric. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
hemispheric dominance | 4 |
dominance hemispheric test | 4 |
hemispheric synchronization | 3 |
hemispheric specialization | 3 |
affair council hemispheric | 3 |
hemispheric | 2 |
center environmental hemispheric technology | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hemispheric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hemisferik. (various references) | |
Chinese | 半球 (hemisphere). (various references) | |
Czech | hemisférický. (various references) | |
German | halbkugelig. (various references) | |
Greek | ημισφαιρικόσ (hemisphrerical, semispherical). (various references) | |
Hungarian | félgömb alakú. (various references) | |
Korean | 반구체. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emispherichay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hemisfrico. (various references) | |
Romanian | emisferic (hemispherical, semispheric, semispherical). (various references) | |
Russian | полусферический. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hemisferičan. (various references) | |
Spanish | hemisférico. (various references) | |
Swedish | hemisferisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | yarımküresel (hemispherical). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | півсферичний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hemispheric": hemispherical. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hemispheric": interhemispheric. (additional references) | |
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"Hemispheric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heliospheric, hemisphaerica, hemispher. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hemispheric" (pronounced he'musfi"rik) |
| 7 | -u s f i" r i k | stratospheric. |
| 4 | -i" r i k | lyric, pyrrhic, satiric, vampiric. |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, anthropocentric, atmospheric, Baldric, barbaric, barometric, boric, caloric, choric, citric, cleric, concentric, Derrick, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, esoteric, ethnocentric, euphoric, fabric, gastric, generic, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, historic, hydroelectric, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, metric, nitric, numeric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, pinprick, prehistoric, psychiatric, rubric, sophomoric, stearic, sulfuric, tantric, vitric. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-h-i-i-m-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: imprecise. | |
-3 letters: chimeres, empirics, epimeric, heirship, misprice. | |
-4 letters: ceriphs, chemise, cherish, chimere, chimers, ciphers, empires, empiric, emprise, epeiric, epimers, heimish, hempier, imphees, imprese, mercies, meshier, perches, piecers, pierces, pismire, precise, premies, premise, primsie, recipes, schemer, schmeer, spermic, spheric, spicier, spireme. | |
-5 letters: ceriph, cerise, cheeps, cheers, chimer, chimes, chimps, chirms, chirps, chrism, cipher, creeps, creesh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-h-i-i-m-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: hemispherical. | |
+5 letters: interhemispheric, photochemistries, phytochemistries. | |
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