hemisphere
半球,半球体,半球形,半个地球
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Definitions
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- : half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided.Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere.
- : a map or projection representing one of these halves.
- : a half of a sphere.
- : Anatomy. either of the lateral halves of the cerebrum or cerebellum.
- : the area within which something occurs or dominates; sphere; realm.
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Examples
Garvey invited dozens of countries to join him in Jamaica, where he resided at the time, to “mark the progress the race has made” on the hemisphere.
Official reports showed historically low levels of flu-like illness among children and adults beginning in May, usually the start of flu season in that hemisphere.
Ski and snowboard teams typically send 100 or so people to the southern hemisphere — Chile, Argentina, New Zealand — to take advantage of fresh snow.
After the spy ring was crushed, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile definitively broke with Axis powers and sided with Allied powers, eliminating the threat that the western hemisphere would fall.
In the southern hemisphere, they’ll glow in the western sky.
The optimism across the hemisphere was obvious, but many challenges remain.
But the men from the Southern Hemisphere have the strength to shrug off that loss.
Polio, for example, has been eradicated in the Western hemisphere thanks to a vigorous international immunization program.
Chikungunya is on the radar now is because it has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere— the Caribbean to be precise.
He was convinced that ocean moats would never keep the Axis powers out of the Western Hemisphere.
This is one of the natural wonders of the southern hemisphere and is much visited by tourists traveling through New Zealand.