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Definition of Northern Hemisphere
1. Noun. The hemisphere that is to the north of the equator.
Definition of Northern Hemisphere
1. Noun. The hemisphere of the Earth (or any celestial body) to the north of its equator. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Hemisphere
Literary usage of Northern Hemisphere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Upper Carboniferous plants of the northern hemisphere fades, ... floras of the
northern hemisphere. In his account of some plants from the Coal Measures of ..."
2. Weather by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Rose/Graf, Mike Graf, Nancy Schoefl, Evan-Moor (Firm (2002)
"Point out that the area above the tape represents the Northern Hemisphere (the
one that contains the United States) and that the area below the tape ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"On the improbability of the theory that former Glacial Periods in the Northern
Hemisphere were due to Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit, and to its Winter ..."
4. Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes by James Croll (1875)
"Heat transferred from Southern to Northern Hemisphere by Ocean-current the true
Explanation. —A large Portion of the Heat of the Gulf-stream derived from ..."
5. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1874)
"CHAPTER XXVI. SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS OF SCANDINAVIA. Extensive glaciation of
mountainous and northern regions throughout the northern hemisphere. ..."
6. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858)
"More Evaporating Surface in the Southern than in the Northern Hemisphere, 326.
... The extra-tropical Regions of the Northern Hemisphere Condenser for the ..."
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