hemi-
Prefix meaning half
Hemi- is a prefix meaning half, used in technical and scientific terms: a hemisphere is half a sphere, hemiplegia is paralysis of half the body.
In automotive slang, a hemi is an engine with hemispherical combustion chambers.
One-sided bodily weakness
- hemicolectomyRemoving half the colon
- hemifacialRelating to half the face
- hemianopiaBlindness in half-field
- hemiballismusUncontrolled flinging movement disorder
Half a ring
- domeRounded vault forming roof
- hemicycleSemicircular architectural form
- curvatureDeviation from flatness
- meridianPole-to-pole great circle
equator · bisection · latitude · northern · southern · eastern · western · cerebral
American automobile manufacturer
- horsepowerRate of mechanical work
- V8Eight-cylinder engine layout
- muscle carHigh-performance American vehicle
- DodgeU.S. car manufacturer
Charger · Challenger · Mopar · combustion · cylinder · engine · torque · Plymouth
Organism partially dependent on host
Smallest standard rhythmic value
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- rhythmicHaving regular tempo
- polyrhythmOverlapping musical beat patterns
- baroqueExcessively ornate or elaborate
triplet · cross-rhythm · notation · Renaissance · Handel · Bach · temporal · subdivision
hemiparesis
One-sided bodily weakness
- hemicolectomyRemoving half the colon
- hemifacialRelating to half the face
- hemianopiaBlindness in half-field
semicircle
Half a ring
- domeRounded vault forming roof
- hemicycleSemicircular architectural form
- curvatureDeviation from flatness
meridian · equator · bisection · latitude · northern · southern · eastern · western · cerebral · global
Chrysler
American automobile manufacturer
- horsepowerRate of mechanical work
- V8Eight-cylinder engine layout
- muscle carHigh-performance American vehicle
Dodge · Charger · Challenger · Mopar · combustion · cylinder · engine · torque · Plymouth · Barracuda
hemiparasite
Organism partially dependent on host
aphid · planthopper · bedbug
sixty-fourth note
Smallest standard rhythmic value
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- rhythmicHaving regular tempo
- polyrhythmOverlapping musical beat patterns
baroque · triplet · cross-rhythm · notation · Renaissance · Handel · Bach · temporal · subdivision
- 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