Definition of Half-size

1. Adjective. Half the usual or regular size.

Similar to: Little, Small

Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-size

half-pipe
half-pipes
half-price
half-ray
half-rays
half-reaction
half-reactions
half-relief
half-seas-over
half-shower
half-showers
half-sibling
half-siblings
half-sister
half-sisters
half-size (current term)
half-slip
half-staff
half-standard
half-step
half-steps
half-term
half-tetrad analysis
half-timber
half-timbered
half-timbering
half-time
half-title
half-track
half-tracked

Literary usage of Half-size

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"This primer is shown in half size in Fig. 9, and consists of a fulminate exploder ... Inclosed within the dynamite is a fuse, shown half size in Fig. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"In the three-wire system as arranged by Edison 2R In the three-wire system, with conductors half size, in which E' equals the electromotive force of each of ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"7 shows this arrangement in half-size. in is a glass cover containing a cylinder of the same material, in the middle of which is a small tube in which the ..."

4. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by Edwin Troxell Freedley, John Leander Bishop, Edward Young (1866)
"were this year struck in New York, by John Dixey—were made at $100 each, and half size likenesses of Penn, Washington, and Franklin, both in Italian and ..."

5. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"The look outside, half size, a, the plate; 6, the cock; e, ... The lock inside, half size, showing all the parts in their places with the cock down at ..."

6. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1809)
"... with the figure of a woman, (half size), kneeling before a book which is 'open. The inscription on a little tablet, on which the book lies, ..."

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