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    Math Definitions -> H -> Hemisphere

 Hemisphere


In geometry it is an exact half of a sphere.

It also refers to half of the Earth, such as the "Northern Hemisphere" (that part of the Earth north of the equator), or "Western Hemisphere" (the half of the Earth west of a line running from the North Pole through England to the South Pole, includes the Americas)