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Example sentences for "hemispherical"

Lexicographically close words:
hemiplegic; hemipterous; hemisphere; hemispheres; hemispheric; hemistich; hemlock; hemlocks; hemm; hemmed
  1. The length HQ, is the upper hemispherical intensity and the length HQ´ the lower hemispherical intensity.

  2. Cup of the acorn hemispherical or top-shape, covering one-third or more of the acorn --8.

  3. Buttons embossed with crests or other devices are produced by the same means; and some of those which are plain receive their hemispherical form from the dies in which they are struck.

  4. The hemispherical helmet is surmounted by a small knob, and has laces to fasten it under the chin.

  5. They contained usually a few stone or bone implements and a certain type of pot with a hemispherical base.

  6. This type of pot is distinguished by having a hemispherical base, while the sides, half way up, have a knee or angle, above which they are concave.

  7. The hemispherical centre is composed of closely packed tubular florets and is surrounded by a number of broad, toothed, golden-yellow rays; the heads have an expanse of 1 to 2 inches.

  8. The central disc is, at first, hemispherical and green but finally becomes elongated and brownish.

  9. Uncle Joshua had a kind heart, a hemispherical waistcoat and a tremendous deal of money.

  10. On the top stage is a tin basin, containing opium sufficient for three balls; in the lower another basin, holding water: in the tray stands a brass hemispherical cup, in which the ball is worked.

  11. A hat he seldom wears, and when he does, it is often extravagantly broad and flat-brimmed, with a small hemispherical crown.

  12. Many of the trees also shelter rude earthenware animals, and hemispherical vessels, which are also objects of worship, as representing the linga.

  13. The gold is in thin plates covering the hemispherical roof like sheets of tin; like most Eastern things, its appearance is more impressive from a distance than at close quarters.

  14. It looks as if built of huge, concentric, overlapping, hemispherical domes, piled one upon another, and having their overlapping edges irregularly broken away.

  15. The kettledrum consists of a hemispherical pan of copper, brass or silver, over which a piece of vellum is stretched tightly by means of screws working on an iron ring, which fits closely round the head of the drum.

  16. In outline the stems are hemispherical or depressed globose and have a deep green color.

  17. They form in hemispherical mounds as wide as eighteen inches, with the larger stems suggesting a pineapple.

  18. The plants grow with single stems or in clumps, and from three inches to a foot and a half tall; others are solitary, and some in large flat masses or hemispherical mounds.

  19. These many-stemmed Barrel Cacti form large hemispherical mounds three to five feet across with the largest stems or trunks in the center.

  20. It is hemispherical or subglobose, and somewhat depressed at the top.

  21. In 1843 this was changed into a hemispherical bottom; and this exists in all English expansive bullets, as the adjoining woodcut will show.

  22. Captain Beaufoy gives a drawing of an elongated bullet one and a quarter diameters in length, having a hemispherical cavity accurately corresponding in shape to its counterpart at the opposite end.

  23. It had a sort of barrel that might have been, say, forty inches in length, and where the breechlock should have been on an ordinary gun was a great hemispherical cavity.

  24. Into the large hemispherical cavity in the breech of the gun he shoved it.

  25. I suppose we are getting gradually over our hemispherical provincialism, which allowed a set of monks to pull their hoods over our eyes and tell us there was no meaning in any religious symbolism but our own.

  26. It is crowned with a hemispherical dome, which, I may remark, half realizes the idea of my egg-shell studio.

  27. A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.

  28. It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds.

  29. A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.

  30. The buds of Eucalyptus have a hemispherical or conical covering, which falls off at anthesis.

  31. A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a celing having the same form.

  32. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across.

  33. A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

  34. A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

  35. Defn: A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

  36. Defn: A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.

  37. Defn: A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

  38. It was a plain cylinder, with hemispherical ends, about 16ft.

  39. The fire grate was beneath the hemispherical end.

  40. Vases of the wide-mouthed, round-bodied variety are represented, also a number of hemispherical bowls.

  41. Another similar specimen with hemispherical body is given in Fig.

  42. A hemispherical stone, probably used as a nut-cracker.

  43. It is contained in a hemispherical shell or carapace, from the round orifice of which the lobed processes are protruded.

  44. As the hemispherical mirror begins to open, the observer receives the full light, since the whole lit hemisphere is illuminated with strict equality; and as it closes again, he passes into darkness.

  45. He was a large, fair-complexioned man, and the way his kindly little eyes looked from under his hemispherical forehead, like two swallows viewing the world from under the eaves of a roof, gave him a striking appearance.

  46. Even the smallest loose grains of sand had been sheared in two along a mathematically exact hemispherical surface by the inconceivable force of the disintegrating copper bar.

  47. Seaton removed the harness and glanced at the spot from which he had taken off, where now appeared a hemispherical hole in the ground.

  48. He was now standing upon a hemispherical mass of earth.

  49. The pileus is convex, hemispherical or even subconical.

  50. Deformed specimens occur in which the cap is hemispherical and very blunt or obtuse at the apex; in others it is abruptly narrowed above and pointed.

  51. Pileus= hemispherical or convex, dry, covered with thick floccose projecting blackish or blackish-brown scales, the margin somewhat appendiculate with scales and fragments of the veil.

  52. Its hemispherical caps, precise, neat, dark gills and brown spores readily distinguish it.

  53. A common, frequent, solitary species, easily recognized by its hemispherical cap, dark mottled gills.

  54. The first shows the original structure--a circular tower of red brick, with the usual sweeps attached to a hemispherical revolving top; in the distance town and harbour are seen.

  55. We remember Bishop Strachan's account of a carriage sent up for his own use from Albany or New York; it was constructed on the model of the ordinary oval stage coach, with a kind of hemispherical top.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hemispherical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.