Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as hemispherical.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to operating throughout a hemisphere.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres
Examples
“With so many leftist leaders in power, it is plausible to surmise that a left bloc of countries might challenge Washington's long-term hemispheric agenda.”
The Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Fissures Over South American Left Integration
“Stating his seriousness on “launching a new chapter” in hemispheric relations, he cautioned that issues and progress could be stymied if states dwelled on stale arguments.”
“The longterm hemispheric trend is best described as a modest and irregular cooling from AD 1000 to around 1850 to 1900, followed by an abrupt 20th-century warming.”
“These are the things we ought to be saying to one another and I should like to see the Canadian Government taking a more active interest, other than its contributions made to the American Development Bank, in hemispheric problems.”
“Figure 6 plots average annual variation of total ozone for the period 1958-1977 with reference lines for long term hemispheric and global averages.”
“I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”
“The phenomenon, known as hemispheric asymmetry, is very little understood, and the international scientific community is currently taking a deep interest in it.”
“Oliver Sacks books are full of such cases, such as hemispheric neglect, in which people lose their awareness of half the world, to the extent that they eat from only one side of their plate, shave only one side of their face, and may even only be able to turn in one direction.”
“While Fox had joined George W. Bush in championing the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA, a kind of hemispheric NAFTA, Chávez had proposed an alternative trade agreement that would exclude the United States.”
“Does anyone believe that "hemispheric" was a word that Drunky used?”
Lists
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
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Shapes
discoidal, orbicular, spherical, hemispheric, rectilinearity, concentricity, equiangular, stellate, concavities, convexity, spiralling, cruciform and 25 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Best Christmas present I can think of. Actually, since my birthday is around the end of January, that's the best present I can think of. Dec 19, 2008
skipvia I keep telling myself it's only a month, but somehow that doesn't help much. Dec 19, 2008
john “By the way, we’re approaching the one-month-to-go mark on the George W. Bush Out of Office Countdown calendar. The presidential quote of the week is: ‘Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.’�?
The New York Times, Send In the Celebrities, by Gail Collins, December 17, 2008 Dec 19, 2008