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hemisphere

[hem-i-sfeer] / ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪər /
NOUN
half
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Barrow's other main problem relates to geography and an international calendar that leaves them ill-prepared to face the leading southern hemisphere nations.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

The situation changed once the Moon settled into an orbit that kept the same hemisphere facing our planet.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The implication was that every Indian society in the hemisphere was descended from Clovis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

A future spacecraft mission to Uranus could also test the researchers' predictions by imaging the unexplored northern hemispheres of Ariel and Miranda and searching for the fractures and ridges expected from their models.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

By combining these new southern observations with data gathered in the north, SDSS-V is bringing panoptic spectroscopy across both hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Without material from the far side, they could not directly test whether solar wind implantation differed systematically between the two hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

From the highest vantage point you can make out only the brain’s two big hemispheres, so I began with studies of split-brain patients and other discoveries that locate language in the left hemisphere.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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