hemispherical
hemispherical adjective: having the shape of half a sphere.
Adjective
hemispherical
- Having the shape of half a sphere.
- Split peas are hemispherical.
- Wind speed is measured by the conventional arrangement of three hemispherical cups, mounted at 120 deg. on a shaft which is geared to a cam.1952 August, “Wind Velocity Records at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 545
- Synonyms:
- semiglobular
- Pertaining to or operating throughout a hemisphere of the Earth.
hemispherical meaning in Tamil and Bengali
hemispherical in Tamil
- அரைக்கோளமான, அரைக்கோளம்
hemispherical in Bengali
- অর্ধগোলক আকৃতির
Synonyms of hemispherical
Origin of hemispherical
From hemi- + spherical.
Words formed from hemispherical
Questions about hemispherical
- What does hemispherical mean?
- Hemispherical means having the shape of half a sphere.
- What is hemispherical in Tamil?
- Hemispherical in Tamil is அரைக்கோளமான, அரைக்கோளம். See Hemispherical meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hemispherical?
- Hemispherical is an adjective.
Words near hemispherical in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemispherical (page history and authors); hemispherical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hemispherical (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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