Hemisphere

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The people who inhabit a hemisphere.

II. Hemisphere ·noun Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

III. Hemisphere ·noun A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

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