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one-half
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[ noun ] (mathematics) one of two equal parts of a divisible whole
Synonyms Examples "half a loaf" or "half an hour" or "a century and one half" Used in print (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)The bristles are a Fitch 2 and a one-half inch brush shaved to a sharp chisel edge . (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state : `` I wish to God one_half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against [ the other half ] '' . (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating_class of nearly one_thousand at Yale ; that_is , about one-half of one per_cent , which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me , especially in an institution which professes to be `` national '' . (1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)The gradient was about one_half of a millidegree at 4.2 * * f but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the � l point . (Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)The president of the firm , calculating expenses alone , felt his costs had dropped one-half while success in selection had improved over one_hundred per_cent . Related terms |
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