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hemisphere 1. one half of a sphere 2. a. half of the terrestrial globe, divided into northern and southern hemispheres by the equator or into eastern and western hemispheres by some meridians, usually 0° and 180° b. a map or projection of one of the hemispheres 3. either of the two halves of the celestial sphere that lie north or south of the celestial equator 4. Anatomy short for cerebral hemisphere hemisphere [′he·mē‚sfir] (geography) A half of the earth divided into north and south sections by the equator, or into an east section containing Europe, Asia, and Africa, and a west section containing the Americas. (mathematics) One of the two pieces of a sphere divided by a great circle. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The trilogy produces hemispherically applicable categories of people, but within each of these categories there are conflicts and there are conflicts between them. I do want to understand the New World as a network of power and practices inextricably linked to the Old World, and therefore you've got to talk hemispherically. Reading Jay Wright easily determines him to be as simultaneously referential as Eliot or Pound and probably more historically and hemispherically expansive. |
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