moiety

• These population changes are induced by the orbital interactions among the dpippi bonding orbital of the TiNSiMe3 moiety, the Ti dz2 orbital and the CH sigma-bonding and sigma*-antibonding orbitals of methane. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• This germinal vesicle divides, and one moiety is budded off from the ovum. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• You have only to give me credit for my moiety, as I owe you nearly that amount I'm satisfied if you are; so let us hurry up, and see Peter prepare the skin, and send him home happy The finest skin I ever saw," said Risk. —  Adrift in the Ice-Fields
• Crook had lost nearly a moiety--50 per cent.--of his entire force, an appalling proportion! —  South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure
• Regardless of what property either spouse may hold or own at the time of marriage, the other immediately becomes possessed of his or her moiety. —  The North American Indian

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