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  1. half-prefix

    A prefix used before brother, sister, uncle, aunt, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is related only through one parent, grandparent, and so forth, rather than two.

  2. half-prefix

    A prefix used to indicate that something is just half or done half, and therefore not total or fully done.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of half- in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of half- in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of half- in a Sentence

  1. Jabbar Collins:

    These guys went into prison, they were young, they lost virtually half of their lives and they'll spend the rest of their lives trying to piece back together and try to make sense of what they have lost and that's the reality.

  2. Sean Connolly:

    [In the last three decades] coral cover went from 28% to 13%. Preliminary estimates [from last year's disaster] are saying we've lost half that amount again. To have that kind of mortality on that kind of scale is unprecedented.

  3. Park Sung-soon:

    New smartphones coming out in the second half won't necessarily help its smartphone business, but will be a plus for Samsung's chip side as those phones require high density chip adoptions.

  4. Wayne Tinkle:

    The points in the paint — they just manhandled us in the second half, it is a battle to play these guys for 40 minutes. They're so stinking athletic in transition. I think they're one of the top teams in the country.

  5. Mechel Chief Executive Oleg Korzhov:

    Mechel put this market situation to good use. We increased overall mining by 4 percent and redirected some of our chief product - coking coal concentrate - to China, increasing our sales to this country nearly by half quarter-on-quarter, we also made several coking coal shipments to India and Vietnam, which are new markets for us.

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