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hemispherical, a.|hɛmɪˈsfɛrɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a hemisphere; of the form of or resembling a hemisphere.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 32 Hemispherical Vaults..be..the securest. 1685Boyle Effects of Mot. ix. 114 A hollow vessel..of an almost Hemispherical figure. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. 194 The capsule is..covered with a hemispherical lid. 1831Brewster Optics xxxix. 325, I have proposed to use a hemispherical lens. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 186 The seeds..are hemispherical, with one side convex and the other flat.
2. Of or belonging to one hemisphere of the earth; extending over a hemisphere.
1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. x. 334, I suppose we are getting over our hemispherical provincialism. 1884(U.S. Senator) in Pall Mall G. 7 June 1/2 The American idea is hemispherical rather than continental.
Hence hemiˈspherically adv., with a hemispherical form.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 524 Hemispherically shrubby-cespitose. |