hemi
Dome-headed engine type
Hemi is a prefix meaning half, from Greek, appearing in words like hemisphere (half a sphere) and hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body).
In American automotive culture, Hemi has become shorthand for a hemispherical combustion engine, a powerful V8 design where the cylinder heads have a dome shape.
Chrysler popularized the term, and a Hemi under the hood signals serious horsepower to car enthusiasts.
Large freight truck
- demiMeaning half or partial
- bisectDivide into two equal portions
- halveDivide into two
- hemicycleSemicircular architectural form
hemianopia · partial · bilateral · symmetry · midpoint · median · equidistant · semicircle
Eight-cylinder engine layout
- horsepowerRate of mechanical work
- torqueRotational force measurement
- MoparChrysler parts division
- ChryslerAmerican automobile manufacturer
cylinder · supercharger · drag-racing · combustion · displacement · carburetor · camshaft · pistons
semi
Large freight truck
hemicycle · hemianopia · partial · bilateral · symmetry · midpoint · median · equidistant · semicircle · half-moon
V8
Eight-cylinder engine layout
- horsepowerRate of mechanical work
- torqueRotational force measurement
- MoparChrysler parts division
Chrysler · cylinder · supercharger · drag-racing · combustion · displacement · carburetor · camshaft · pistons · exhaust
- car culturecar meets, hot rod, muscle car, classic car, classic cars
- enginesdiesel engine, gasoline engine, car engine, truck engine, piston engine
- car slangbeater, beamer, Benz, bug, Caddy
- hot rodshot rod, hotrod, deuce coupe, rat rod, gasser
- number prefixesuni, mono, bi, tri, tetra
- prefixespre-, anti, post-, contra, re-
- Northern HemisphereRegion above the equator
- Southern HemisphereEarth beneath the equator
- right hemisphereBrain's creative, spatial half
- Western HemisphereEarth's American half
- left hemisphereBrain's logical half
- Eastern HemisphereEarth's longitudinal half containing continents oldest-known