Mediety
/mɪˈdaɪ.ɪti/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 one of two (approximately) equal parts wordnet
- 3 Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.
Antonyms
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More examples"[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.