Definitions for western hemisphere
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. western hemisphere, occident, New Worldnoun

   the hemisphere that includes North America and South America

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1. Western Hemispherenoun

   The hemisphere of the Earth to the west of the Greenwich Meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line).

2. Western Hemispherenoun

   The Americas.

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1. Western Hemisphere

   The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, England) and east of the 180th meridian. The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere. Politically, the term Western Hemisphere is often used as a metonymy for the Americas, even though geographically the hemisphere also includes parts of other continents.

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1. western hemisphere

   The Western Hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of Earth which lies west of the prime meridian (0° longitude) and east of the antimeridian (180° longitude). It covers the Americas, the western portions of Europe and Africa, the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, and a part of Antarctica.

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1. Western Hemisphere

   The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the IERS Reference Meridian and east of the Antimeridian, the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere. In this sense, the Western Hemisphere consists of the Americas, the western portions of Europe and Africa, the extreme eastern tip of Russia, numerous territories in Oceania, and a portion of Antarctica, while excluding some of the Aleutian Islands to the southwest of the Alaskan mainland. The term is often used in political rhetoric to refer to only North and South America and adjacent islands; however, the Western Hemisphere technically includes all of the aforementioned territories. In an effort to define the Western Hemisphere as the parts of the world which are not part of the Old World, there also exist projections which use the 20th meridian west and the diametrically opposed 160th meridian east to define the hemisphere. This projection excludes the European and African mainlands and a small portion of northeast Greenland, but includes more of eastern Russia and Oceania.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of western hemisphere in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of western hemisphere in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of western hemisphere in a Sentence

1. State Department:

   From his support of FARC, to his failure to assist those seeking freedom in Cuba, Joe Biden and his Democrat party have consistently sided with Marxist elements throughout the Western Hemisphere.

2. Former President Duque:

   I condemned it when I was president. And we also expelled spies, Russian spies from the Colombian territory, and I think we need to keep on demonstrating [ to ] the world of that interest that Russia has in Venezuela, i think at this point in time, all the Western Hemisphere countries need to reject that intention of Vladimir Putin to bringing to the Western Hemisphere a capacity to destabilize.

3. John Negroponte:

   I think if they had to do it over again, they might have considered postponing it. But now, I think they're just going to go ahead with it, make the best of it, this is an opportunity to put the spotlight on issues that are important to us in Western Hemisphere, and I'm sure the administration will have some success in doing Western Hemisphere and I'm sure there will be useful meetings, useful conversations on a whole host of issues.

4. John Dermody:

   The administration will see this as part of a broader concern about China investing in countries as a threat to make potentially those countries beholden to China or indebted to China and to diminish the United Statess influence in the Western Hemisphere, and I would say that the concern is particularly acute where the investment is going to be in information technology. And in light of the catastrophic damage of the Bahamas, I think that is going to be an issue.

5. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos:

   We are grateful to President Obama and his government for this new gesture and the support that they have given us in this decisive moment to end the Western Hemisphere's last armed conflict.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=western hemisphere
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=western hemisphere