Hemisphere

Hemisphere may refer to:

  • Half of a sphere

As half of the Earth:

  • a hemisphere of the Earth
  • Any half of the (Earth-centered), celestial sphere
  • cultural hemisphere

As half of the brain:

  • Cerebral hemisphere, a division of the cerebrum
  • Half of the cerebellum, a smaller part of the brain

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Famous quotes containing the word hemisphere:

    “Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)