semispheric

[ sem-ee-sfeer-ik, -sfer-, sem-ahy- ]

/ ˌsɛm iˈsfɪər ɪk, -ˈsfɛr-, ˌsɛm aɪ- /

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adjective

shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.

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[sem-ee-sfeer-i-kuhl, -sfer-, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm iˈsfɪər ɪ kəl, -ˈsfɛr-, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ .

Origin of semispheric

1655–65; semi- + spheric

sem·i·sphere

[sem-i-sfeer], /ˈsɛm ɪˌsfɪər/, noun

The digital dating sphere can prove tricky, and bruising, for the trans user.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Here they are semi-touching at a grocery store; she likes kombucha.
All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Taken: Gosling, Cumberbatch, and now Joseph Gordon-Levitt|Melissa Leon|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops|Michael Daly|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tiger Lily and her tribe, however, were outfitted in semi-realistic outfits (read: nearly naked).
‘Peter Pan Live!’ Review: No Amount of Clapping Brings It to Life|Kevin Fallon|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Our troops have done all that flesh and blood can do against semi-permanent works, and they are not able to carry them.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
The stop-keys will be seen arranged in an inclined semi-circle overhanging and just above the keyboards.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
But in 1811 he was recalled to Paris to receive orders before starting on a new sphere of duty.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison