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ˈsemisphere Now rare.
[f. semi- + sphere. Cf. late L. sēmisphæra, -ium.]
A hemisphere.
1659Torriano, Semi-sphéra, a semy sphear. 1773Brydone Tour through Sicily ix. 81 These are all..of a regular figure, either that of a cone or a semisphere. 1792Baron Munchausen's Trav. xxiii. 99 The summit of the mountain, in the form of a semisphere. 1798[see semi-spheroid]. 1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mamm. III. 44 In the two-horned rhinoceros the disc which bears the anterior horn is a semisphere.
Hence semiˈspheric, -ˈspherical adjs.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd. e 8 b, Semi⁓spherical, as callai, astroitæ. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 37 You shall in the Microscope see those 2. black spots to be semi-spherical eyes. 1896Vizetelly tr. Zola's Rome 198 A spacious round chamber with semispherical ceiling. |