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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The middle part; half; moiety. obsolete

   "[creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below"

2. 2
   one of two (approximately) equal parts wordnet
3. 3
   Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.

Synonyms

All synonyms

halfhalfway househemispheremidwaymoietymoiety

Example

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"[creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below"

Etymology

From the late Middle English medietee (“a half”), borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās. Doublet of moiety.

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