hemisphere

Hemisphere or hemisphere (from ancient Greek ἡμισφαίριον hemisphairion "hemisphere") stands for:

• half of a spherical shell or a spherical body in mathematics, see sphere # spherical cuts
• different divisions of the earth in geography, see earth's surface # breakdown by hemispheres
• in astronomy, the northern and southern halves of the celestial sphere
• in astronomy, hemispheres of other celestial bodies also expand, see equatorial coordinate system
• a half of the brain as part of the cerebrum, see telencephalon # Arrangement of gray and white matter in hemispheres
• half of the brain in the cerebellum

• Hemisphere is software from the US company AT&T that has been making telecommunications data collected since 1987 searchable in order to sell it.

See also:

• Lateralization of the brain

Wiktionary: Hemisphere  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: hemisphere  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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