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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, with one half, or nearly so, of a nominally bilateral organ wanting, as in the leaves of some begonias; dimidiate.
  • In golf, having the same score on each side: as, a hole is halved when each side takes the same number of strokes; a match is halved when both sides have won the same number of holes, or have proved equal; etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of halve.

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