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hemisphere

[hem-i-sfeer] / ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪər /
NOUN
half
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After the matches against Australia, Japan and New Zealand, England will play a fourth Test against an as-yet-undecided southern hemisphere opponent in the play-off finals weekend of the new Nations Championship format.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

However, the measurements showed that this darker hemisphere was not warm enough to explain all the missing heat.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

The wiser course is to work with his government to check Chinese influence in the hemisphere and to build, carefully and gingerly, on the shared interest in a stable Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

He takes up his role as Port Lockroy postmaster from late October to March, during the southern hemisphere summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

It’s like water whirling down a plughole: in the northern hemisphere it whooshes anti-clockwise, in the south, clockwise.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

The researchers propose that the answer lies in the movement of ocean water between the hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

The observations provide valuable information about WASP-17b's atmospheric chemistry and temperature variations, including differences between its equator and poles and between its permanently illuminated and dark hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

This suggests that the mantle cumulates, minerals that accumulated as the Moon's magma ocean crystallized, do not differ substantially in composition between the two hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

However, new evidence shows that its two hemispheres have not experienced that bombardment in the same way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Absent the extinctions, the encounter between Europe and the Americas might have been equally deadly for both sides—a world in which both hemispheres experienced catastrophic depopulation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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