SEMICIRCLE Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

semicircle

noun

Definition of semicircle

as in hemisphere

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Recent Examples of semicircle The umbral shadow will first appear as a small semicircle of shadow close to the dark expanses of Oceanus Procellarum (the Ocean of Storms) and Mare Humorum on the moon's southwestern edge, before swiftly spreading to swallow the nearby moonscape. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026 The newspaper photographers lay on the lawn with their cameras twinkling under the stadium lights, the musicians tuned their instruments, while farther away the uneven horizon of the city described a wide semicircle. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 Most modern cyanobacteria have large antenna complexes (or phycobilisomes), built from proteins infused with light-absorbing pigments, that fan out from the thylakoid membrane in a large semicircle. — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2026 The two mothers stood together, eight small caskets arrayed in a semicircle before them. — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 9 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for semicircle

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To this day, climbers from every hemisphere still make once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimages to Camp 4 to sleep under the trees and feel connected to the past.

— Daniel Duane, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026
In its own hemisphere, the State Department is committed to a more openly imperialist project.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of hemisphere

Noun

Their traditions inspired the property’s spa treatments and even its placement atop heilige Linien—sacred meridians said to hold special power.

— Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
Some Eastern Orthodox churches use astronomical observations according to the meridian of Jerusalem, the department says.

— Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026

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