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Definition of Hemisphere
Hemisphere

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

Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

The people who inhabit a hemisphere.

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Hemisphere Quotations

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
Paul Cellucci

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
Alva Myrdal

Hemisphere Translations

hemisphere in Dutch is hemisfeer, halfrond
hemisphere in German is Halbkugel, Hemisphere
hemisphere in Italian is emisfero, emiciclo
hemisphere in Norwegian is halvkule
hemisphere in Spanish is hemisferio, semicirculo
hemisphere in Swedish is halvklot


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