Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hemisphere
IPA transcription: [h'ɛmɪsf,ɪɹ]
Pronunciations of hemisphere
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hemisphere
    Meaning: half of the terrestrial globe
Usage examples
  • In other words, the eastern hemisphere dial was useless.
  • What kind of spectacle would its hidden hemisphere present to our terrestrial spheroid?
  • Yet as soon as the sun is at the horizon, the whole hemisphere is illuminated from end to end.
  • Neither does it appear from what matter a body can be daily generated large enough to fill the intervening hemisphere.
  • Beneath the second dial he found the steel pin severed as in the other, but the controlling mechanism had first been set for a point upon the western hemisphere.
  • It seems that the dance of the auroral lights occurs most frequently during the absence of the moon from the hemisphere in which they appear, and that they flee, in greater part, to the opposite hemisphere when the moon's revolution in an orbit considerably inclined to the earth's equator brings her into that where they have been performing.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Phoebe (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Louis Slotin, License CC BY-SA 4.0