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Plural of hemisphere

regular plural

The plural of hemisphere is hemispheres.

Forms of hemisphere

Singularhemisphere /ˈhɛmɪsfɪə/
Pluralhemispheres
Countablecountable

Hemispheres in a sentence

  • The largest sulcus, the longitudinal fissure, divides the brain into left and right hemispheres.1999, Thomas C. Pritchard, Kevin D. Alloway, Medical Neuroscience, page 55. From the entry sulcus
  • PHYSICIST SLOTIN (manipulating the two hemispheres of the bomb at a table): Come closer.1993, James Erwin Schevill, 5 Plays 5, page 52. From the entry tickle the dragon's tail
  • Your brain has two hemispheres, left and right.2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry swot
  • These people populated a fairly small part of the vast lands that now comprise the Southern and Northern hemispheres.1992 January 21, Doug Gould, “Jesus After the Ascension”, in bit.listserv.christia (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026. From the entry BofM
  • Despite the generally symmetrical appearance of the two hemispheres, however, a number of biological asymmetries have been documented during the last hundred years.1993, Joseph B. Hellige, Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry asymmetry

Meaning of hemisphere

  1. noun Half of the celestial sphere, as divided by either the ecliptic or the celestial equator .
  2. noun A realm or domain of activity .
  3. noun Half of the Earth, such as the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere or Eastern Hemisphere, Land Hemisphere, Water Hemisphere etc. .

Full definition of hemisphere

Questions about the plural of hemisphere

What is the plural of hemisphere?
The plural of hemisphere is hemispheres.
Is hemisphere countable?
Hemisphere is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemisphere (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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