0 past simple and past participle of halve --
1 to reduce something by half or divide something into two equal pieces: --
Costs were halved and doubled to obtain lower and upper limits.
From lesson 14, as a result of the organisational changes described above, the number of children we could observe constantly was halved.
In the other scenarios, the screening frequencies are halved as compared to the next more intensive scenario.
The high-rate strategy was assumed to have a doubled maximum specific growth rate and a halved yield relative to the high-yield strategy.
In tenant farmers' contracts the amount of corn was almost always halved on the death of one of the spouses.
In absolute numbers, there were fewer workers in agriculture in 1989 than in 1959, and agriculture's share in total employment seems to have halved.
In this example, the net loss of mean fitness is roughly halved by the variance from linkage disequilibrium.
If collision occurs, the distance of the translation is halved until the translation is collision-free.
