Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a hemisphere: as, a hemispherical body.
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- adjective Having the shape of a
hemisphere .
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- adjective of or relating to or being a hemisphere
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Examples
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One is described as a hemispherical cup of interwoven fibres covered with skeleton leaves, slung by silken threads to the under surface of a large leaf.
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Europeans preferred the compact "hemispherical" type, found, it was said, only among
Anime Nano! 2010
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The "hemispherical" firing chamber delivers more power than one that is typically slanted or miss-shapened.
EveryJoe 2009
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The "hemispherical" firing chamber delivers more power than one that is typically slanted or miss-shapened.
EveryJoe 2009
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The pellets simultaneously explode to initiate the entire outer surface of a high explosive component in hemispherical form under the shell.
Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead 2011
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It is a hemispherical aluminium shell system that contains a distributed array of explosive filled channels which terminate in explosive pellets," Albright told the Guardian."
Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead 2011
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Lizzie Clachan's design creates in a hemispherical wooden wall a navy-blue window in which the puppets can strut their stuff; when the walls around this peel back, the real flesh-and-blood actors are encased in larger boxes, as if everyone were on trial.
The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012
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One of the biggest areas of concern for the IAEA is evidence that Iranian scientists have conducted research on hemispherical arrays of explosives, of a type used in the construction of nuclear weapons to crush a spherical core of fissile material and thereby trigger a chain reaction.
Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead 2011
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They earlier worked together to develop flexible electronics for hemispherical camera sensors and other devices that have complex shapes.
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The whole hemispherical system is initiated by one initial point of detonation, or two points for an entire device of two hemispheres.
Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead 2011
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