hemispherical

1. 1.

   of or relating to or being a hemisphere

Questions about hemispherical

What does hemispherical mean?

hemispherical means "of or relating to or being a hemisphere".

How many syllables are in hemispherical?

hemispherical has 5 syllables and divides as he-mi-sphe-ri-cal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hemispherical a common word?

hemispherical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.