hemispherical
adjEtymology From hemi- + spherical.
1
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:
2
Pertaining to or operating throughout a hemisphere of the Earth.
- Synonyms
- hemispheric, semiglobular
- Derived terms
- bihemispherical, conicohemispherical, hemispherically, interhemispherical, subhemispherical