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ONE-HALF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of two equal parts of a divisible whole
Example:
a century and one half
Synonyms:
half; one-half
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("one-half" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "one-half"):
fifty percent (a half expressed as a percentage)
mediety; moiety (one of two (approximately) equal parts)
Context examples:
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.
(Cook Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about one-half the way from Africa to Indonesia.
(British Indian Ocean Territory, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
One-half of the lattice window was swinging on its hinge, and a cloth cap lying upon the table was the only sign of the occupant.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago.
(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An island group in the Caribbean Sea, nearly one-half of the way from Cuba to Honduras.
(Cayman Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, south of Africa, about one-half the way from Africa to Indonesia and south of the Maldives.
(British Indian Ocean Territory, NCI Thesaurus)
An island group between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway.
(Faroe Islands, NCI Thesaurus)
The stromal invasion has a maximum depth of 5.00 mm and a horizontal spread of 7.00 mm or less; for endometrial cancer, it refers to cancer limited to endometrium or invades less than one-half of the myometrium.
(FIGO Stage IA, NCI Thesaurus)
For cervical cancer, it refers to invasive cancer that is clinically visible and is confined to the cervix or it is diagnosed microscopically and the stromal invasion is more than 5.00 mm and the horizontal spread is more than 7.00 mm; for endometrial cancer, it refers to cancer that is confined to the uterine body and invades one-half or more of the myometrium.
(FIGO Stage IB, NCI Thesaurus)
During the final fraction of a second, the two black holes collide into each other at nearly one-half the speed of light and form a single more massive black hole, converting a portion of the combined black holes' mass to energy, according to Einstein's formula E=mc2.
(Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction, NASA)
