0 either of the two equal or nearly equal parts that together make up a whole: --
The bottle's half empty.
I'm half inclined to take the job just because it's in Argentina.
UK informal I'll meet you at half seven (= half past seven).
I'll meet you at half past nine (= 09.30 or 21.30).
She invited a lot of people to the party but half of them didn't turn up.
Half of me would just like to give it all up and travel around the world (= partly I would like to, but partly I would not).
Roughly half (of) the class are Spanish and the others are a mixture of nationalities.
"What's half of 96?" "48."
1 either of two periods of time into which a game is divided --
2 half a pint of a drink, especially beer: --
4 either of the two equal or nearly equal parts that together make up a whole: --
5 referring to either of the two equal or nearly equal parts that together make up a whole: --
The trajectories of two group of dipoles located every half wavelength apart in the vertical are nonetheless clearly visible.
If timber price were to fall by a third, then benefits are still comparable to half the proceeds of logging being invested.
A homemade torch or lamp made up of a bottle half-filled with kerosene and stuffed with a clothwick and used out of doors.
The decline in residence with children was most rapid during the period from 1940 to 1980, when more than half the total change took place.
Half of the participants took one form of the task and the other half took the other form.
The story is told that there are two personalities among psychologists, optimists and pessimists, who see the glass as half full or half empty, respectively.
By then, over half the former division members were dead, and the average age of the 117 surviving members was seventy-three years.
A year and a half after the constitution came into being, more than fifty political parties had emerged.
