Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HEM'IS-PHERE
HE-MIP'TER-ALHEM-IS-PHER'IC, or HEM-IS-PHER'IC-AL
HEM'IS-PHERE, n. [Gr. ἡμισφαιριον.]
- A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. In astronomy, one half the mundane sphere. The equator divides the sphere into two equal parts. That on the north is called the northern hemisphere; the other, the southern. So the horizon divides the sphere into the upper and lower hemispheres. Hemisphere is also used for a map or projection of half the terrestrial or celestial sphere, and is then often called planisphere.
- A map or projection of half the terrestrial globe.
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