| 词汇 | halve |
| 释义 | halve verb uk /hɑːv/ us /hæv/ [ T ] to reduce something by half or divide something into two equal pieces: 使减半；把…二等分 In the past eight years, the elephant population in Africa has been halved.在过去的8年中，非洲大象的数量减少了一半。 The potatoes will cook more quickly if you halve them before you put them in the oven.如果把土豆切成两半再放进烤箱，它们会熟得更快。 [ I ] If something halves, it is reduced by half: 减半 Their profits have halved in the last six months.在过去的6个月里，他们的利润减少了一半。 Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction deflation dwindle dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off recede reduce reducible reduction resize trough tumble You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division halve | American Dictionaryhalve verb[ T ] us/hæv/ to divide something into two equal parts, or to reduce something to half of its original size, number, or degree: The doctor decided to halve the dose of the drug. halve | Business Englishhalve verb[ I or T ] uk /hɑːv/us to reduce a number or amount by 50 per cent, or to be reduced by 50 per cent: Canada, Japan, and the EU are committed to halving global emissions by 2050. Pre-tax profits nearly halved last year to £14m. halve the amount/number/cost of sthThe industry's rush of consolidation in the last decade nearly halved the number of banks in the U.S. to around 7,500. Examples of halvehalve However, the new sampling rate uses twice as many samples every second; therefore, the duration will be halved. As a result, the number of yeomen was halved. Each half eye was halved again on the horizontal meridian. Compared to period 3 the peaks of the author-based map are deprived of three-fourths of their former height; compared to period 4 they are halved. Figure 11 presents three computations with successively halved sizes of crosswise computing cells. I n other words, by halving (doubling) the eddy size (wavenumber) the characteristic correlation time is halved. If corrections for heteroplasmy are necessary, then these values have to be halved (see discussion of pedigree studies above). Apparently, the flesh had been stripped from the head before its deposition in the chamber, and probably before the blow that halved the occipital bone. The genetic variability is therefore expected to be halved in populations with very high frequencies of self-fertilization. Even then, overall child poverty is reduced by 1,650,000: roughly halved, not reduced to zero. Similarly, if the duration of carriage is halved to 4.5 months, then the average number of carriage episodes will double. When theflowis halved to 1.51/min/m2, blood pressure fell only slightly and, thus, the resistance increased dramatically. The death rate from strokes has almost halved since 1972, and there has also been a significant reduction in deaths from heart disease. One puts (on the counting surface) the 2 persons and the 3 persons "and one respectively halves them to subtract them from the" 5 persons. The crossed diagonal bracing indicates that the members pass over one another - or are they halved together? See all examples of halve These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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