hemispherical

• “One is described as a hemispherical cup of interwoven fibres covered with skeleton leaves, slung by silken threads to the under surface of a large leaf.”

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island

• “Europeans preferred the compact "hemispherical" type, found, it was said, only among”

  Anime Nano!

• “The "hemispherical" firing chamber delivers more power than one that is typically slanted or miss-shapened.”

  EveryJoe

• “Lizzie Clachan's design creates in a hemispherical wooden wall a navy-blue window in which the puppets can strut their stuff; when the walls around this peel back, the real flesh-and-blood actors are encased in larger boxes, as if everyone were on trial.”

  The Guardian: The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review

• “They earlier worked together to develop flexible electronics for hemispherical camera sensors and other devices that have complex shapes.”

  USA Today: Tattoo-like patch breakthrough in patient monitoring

• “The whole hemispherical system is initiated by one initial point of detonation, or two points for an entire device of two hemispheres.”

  The Guardian: Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead

• “The pellets simultaneously explode to initiate the entire outer surface of a high explosive component in hemispherical form under the shell.”

  The Guardian: Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead

• “It is a hemispherical aluminium shell system that contains a distributed array of explosive filled channels which terminate in explosive pellets," Albright told the Guardian.”

  The Guardian: Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead

• “One of the biggest areas of concern for the IAEA is evidence that Iranian scientists have conducted research on hemispherical arrays of explosives, of a type used in the construction of nuclear weapons to crush a spherical core of fissile material and thereby trigger a chain reaction.”

  The Guardian: Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead

• “Iran's suspected activities, says the IAEA, include "producing uranium metal . . . into components relevant to a nuclear device"; "multipoint explosive initiation and hemispherical detonation studies"; and "missile re-entry vehicle redesign activities for a new payload assessed as being nuclear in nature.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Iran Nuclear Progress Report

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