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something , half / haf/ • n. (pl. halves / havz/ ) either of two equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided: the northern half of the… hemi- , hemi-. Greek word meaning ‘half’. It prefixes other words in architectural terminology. Examples include:hemi-cycle: semicircular room, part of a roo… Cyrus West Field , Cyrus West Field
Cyrus West Field
Cyrus West Field (1819-1892), American merchant and promoter, laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
Cyrus F… Half-life , The half-life of a diminishing substance is the time it takes for the amount of substance present to go halfway from some initial value to zero. It i… Henry Fielding , The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the 18th century. His fiction, plays, essays, and lega… Atargatis , Atargatis in Assyrian mythology, a fertility goddess, resembling Astarte, and shown as half-fish, half-woman.
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