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Definition of Half-size
1. Adjective. Half the usual or regular size.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-size
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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