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Hemisphere

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The term hemisphere is used in three different meanings:

  1. one-half of the Earth (or other planetary or stellar body; see also New World and Old World)
  2. one-half of any spherical object, divided at a great circle
  3. one of the two principal parts of the brain (left or right hemisphere)