NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northern hemisphere mean? 

• NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (noun)
  The noun NORTHERN HEMISPHERE has 1 sense:

1. the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator

  Familiarity information: NORTHERN HEMISPHERE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hemisphere that is to the north of the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)

Meronyms (parts of "northern hemisphere"):

Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)

Laurasia (a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia)

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

Cassini's observations show a reversal in the atmosphere above Titan's poles since the spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, when similar features were seen in the northern hemisphere.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

Three small Type 1 flows are found in Oxo Crater, a tiny bright crater in the northern hemisphere that hosts an ice deposit at the surface.

(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)

This is a small fraction of the landscape — much less than 1 percent of the surface area of the northern hemisphere.

(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)

The new study reports the first glimpses of a northern polar vortex forming high in the atmosphere, as Saturn's northern hemisphere approached summertime.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

Clouds continued to be observed as spring came to Titan's northern hemisphere.

(Cassini tracks clouds developing over a Titan sea, NASA)

Each of these weeklong orbits — 20 in all — carries the spacecraft high above Saturn's northern hemisphere before sending it skimming past the outer edges of the planet's main rings.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

In 1989, most of the northern hemisphere was in darkness and unseen by Voyager.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

There are three large seas, all located close to the moon's north pole, surrounded by numerous of smaller lakes in the northern hemisphere.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

For snowshoe hares and 20 other species across the northern hemisphere, the white winter coats that once rendered them nearly invisible to predators now make them conspicuous to lynx, foxes, weasels and hawks.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

But there's a heavy preference for landing in the northern hemisphere, which is generally lower in elevation and provides more atmosphere to slow a landing spacecraft.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)