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Eastern hemisphere   /ˈistərn hˈɛmɪsfˌɪr/   Listen
Eastern hemisphere

noun
1.
The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia.  Synonym: orient.






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"Eastern hemisphere" Quotes from Famous Books



... existed as early as 1796 in the Eastern Hemisphere, and was more or less prevalent in several of the European countries, including France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, during the first half of the nineteenth century. Its presence was recognized for ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... increasing soil salinization below Aswan High Dam; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; water pollution; desertification Note: controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, shortest sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean; size and juxtaposition to Israel establish its major role ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... mathematician, the scribe?" "Yes," answered he. Quoth she, "Ask of what thou wilt; success resteth with Allah." So he said, "Tell me of the sun and its rising and setting." And she replied: "Know that the sun riseth from the shadows in the Eastern hemisphere and setteth in the shadows of the Western, and each hemisphere compriseth one hundred and eighty degrees. Quoth Allah Almighty, 'I swear by the Lord of the East and of the West.'[FN415] And again, 'He it is who hath ordained the sun to shine ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Eastern hemisphere" :   Africa, hemisphere, Eurasia, Australia, Old World



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