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hemisphere 音标拼音: [h'ɛmɪsf ,ɪr] n. 半球,地球的半面,大脑半球 半球,地球的半面,大脑半球 hemisphere n 1: half of the terrestrial globe 2: half of a sphere 3: either half of the cerebrum [ synonym: { hemisphere}, { cerebral hemisphere}] Hemisphere \ Hem" i* sphere\, n. [ L. hemisphaerium, Gr. ?; ? half = ? sphere: cf. F. h[' e] misph[` e] re. See { Hemi-}, and { Sphere}.] 1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere. [ 1913 Webster] He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. -- J. P. Peters. [ 1913 Webster] { Cerebral hemispheres}. ( Anat.) See { Brain}. { Magdeburg hemispheres} ( Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto von Guericke at Magdeburg. Hemispheric33 Moby Thesaurus words for " hemisphere": ambit, arena, bailiwick, beat, border, borderland, circle, circuit, demesne, department, domain, dominion, field, fifty percent, fifty- fifty, half, half- and- half, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, march, mediety, moiety, orb, orbit, pale, precinct, province, realm, round, semicircle, semisphere, sphere, walk
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