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half: one of the lateral halves of the carcase of an animal
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

half: at the end of each half he shall check and approve the score.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

half-automatic: a pagination mode where page breaks are either confirmed or rejected by the operator
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-bridge: a device linking LANs over a low-speed link such as a telephone line or X.25 link
Category: News-systems and communications

half-carry: carry from bit 3 into bit 4 required for adding packed BCD numbers correctly,where two BCD digits reside in one 8-bit byte
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-cell: an electrode immersed in a suitable electrolyte
Category: Chemistry

half-closed: we shall consider a --...as a set of one of the forms (minus infinity, b), or (a, b) or a) plus infinity)..
Category: Mathematics

half-coil: either of two parts which,when connected together,would form a complete coil and which comprise a coil side and appropriate end winding
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

half-cooling: time taken to reduce the temperature of produce to a point halfway between the initial and the final temperatures
Category: Mechanical engineering

half-cycle: the time interval corresponding to half a cycle,or 180º,at the operating frequency of a circuit or device
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

half-duplex: operation of a circuit designed for duplex operation but which,on account of the nature of the terminal equipment,can be operated in one direction only at a time
Category: News-systems and communications

half-echo: an echo suppressor in which the speech signals of one path control the suppression loss in the other path but in which this action is not reciprocal
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-finished: an intermediate product of a manufacturing process, or a finished component procured by a maker from an outside source to be incorporated in his own product
Category: Iron and steel industries

half-hour: the average demand taken over a time interval of half an hour defined within the tariff and designated as the demand integration period
Category: Technical and industry in general

half-hourly: the average demand taken over a time interval of half an hour,defined within the tariff and designated as the demand integration period
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

half-life: the time taken for the concentration of the parent compound to be reduced to half its original value. It thus gives a measure of the persistence of the chemical in that particular soil
Category: Physics

half-life: The time required for half the amount of a substance(here radiocarbon)in or introduced into a living system or ecosystem to be eliminated or disintegrated by natural processes.
Category: Botany and zoology

half-line: machines are also available which provide for -- or for four lines to the inch.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

half-marl: A yarn consisting of one end of mixture shade or solid colour,twisted with one end of two colours that have been roved together(as in marl).
Category: Various industries and crafts

half-moon: Two quarter-round tables joined to make a half circle.Seating locations for honoured guests and/or meeting presenters.
Category: General

half-plaid: an experimental design introduced by Yates(1937)which is related to the split plot design and to the quasi-latin square design.If certain treatment combinations are laid out in the form of a latin square and an additional treatment at two levels is applied to the rows of the square,one row receiving one level only,the resulting square is said to be half-paid.Whereas in quasi-latin squares the principle of confounding is applied only to interactions,in the case of the half-plaid square design the main effects are also confounded.The half-plaid square may also be regarded as a split plot design with the sub-units laid out in the form of latin squares
Category: Statistics

half-rate: achieved by using on average every second burst; allows speech transmission coded at about 6.5 kbits/s
Category: News-systems and communications

half-replicate: an experimental design based upon the principle of fractional replication,which employs only one half of the complete number of treatment combinations in a basic design
Category: Statistics

half-round: an economical crosstie made from barked half-round timber,little or no hewing being done on the rounded surface
Category: Building industry

half-sized: a graph using condensed character sets
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-subtracter: a combinational circuit that has two inputs that are minuend and a subtrahend and two outputs that are a difference,and a borrow digit,and in which the outputs are related to the inputs
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-tide: that condition of the tide when half-way highest and lowest water
Category: The cosmos

half-timber: (Of a building)constructed of wood framing with spaces filled with masonry.
Category: Botany and zoology

half-title: the title of a book printed on the second page preceding the title page
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-tone: reproduction by half-tone process
Category: Printing and publishing

half-track: a motor vehicle equipped with half-tracks in the rear and wheels in the front,esp.a vehicle lightly armoured for military purposes
Category: Transport

half-wave: half of a complete wave,i.e.a complete rise and fall in one direction
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

half-way: specialised centre within the community,often residential,for persons who do not or no longer require full hospitalisation but who are not well enough to function completely within the community without professional supervision,protection and support
Category: Medicine

halfen: shape or section of approximately omega cross-section,with slits at irregular intervals along the back,slightly humped to permit insertion of an anchor strip,intended for embedding in concrete floors etc.
Category: Iron and steel industries

halfway: a country that is on the way to being industrialized but is not yet fully industrialized
Category: Economics

halfway: the technology that includes palliative treatments and interventions to delay the course of a disease about which medicine is unable to do very much
Category: Botany and zoology

halfword: a contiguous sequence of bits or characters that comprise half a computer word and is capable of being addressed as a unit
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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