hemisphere
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology,neuroscience,geography,mathematics,geometry
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[ noun ] (geography) half of the terrestrial globe
Used in print (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and nymphs , those who stayed alive through the summer , are being brought into nests for quickening and more growing '' . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)I can n't tell you now the distance in light_years or what star this was , though you can see it with the naked eye at night in this hemisphere . It was night on this hemisphere , but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia , Japan , China , Southeast_Asia , India , Siberia . |
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[ noun ] (mathematics,geometry) half of a sphere
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology,neuroscience) either half of the cerebrum
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