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hemisphere

[hem-i-sfeer] / ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪər /
NOUN
half
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After the matches against Australia, Japan and New Zealand, England will play a fourth Test against an as-yet-undecided southern hemisphere opponent in the play-off finals weekend of the new Nations Championship format.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

However, the measurements showed that this darker hemisphere was not warm enough to explain all the missing heat.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

The outcome also led many to believe the game in the northern hemisphere had reached a new nadir - with England's World Cup prospects almost dismissed out of hand as a result.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“The market is grappling with the idea that we’re about to go through a large part of the Northern hemisphere winter with little Persian Gulf LNG supply,” analysts at ING say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

For to preserve the old orthodoxy it would have been necessary to insist that the world’s land masses were confined to one hemisphere.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

For the first time, scientists could directly compare rocks collected from both lunar hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Either Mg-suite magmas formed on the far side without substantial involvement from KREEP-rich material, or the layer containing these elements developed unevenly across the Moon, leaving the two hemispheres with different chemical compositions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

A future spacecraft mission to Uranus could also test the researchers' predictions by imaging the unexplored northern hemispheres of Ariel and Miranda and searching for the fractures and ridges expected from their models.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Without material from the far side, they could not directly test whether solar wind implantation differed systematically between the two hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

It speeds up communication between the hemispheres and affects language and higher-order brain functioning.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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