Meaning of halve in English

halve the amount/number/cost of sth The industry's rush of consolidation in the last decade nearly halved the number of banks in the U.S. to around 7,500.

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However, the new sampling rate uses twice as many samples every second; therefore, the duration will be halved.

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As a result, the number of yeomen was halved.

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Each half eye was halved again on the horizontal meridian.

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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.

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Figure 11 presents three computations with successively halved sizes of crosswise computing cells.

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I n other words, by halving (doubling) the eddy size (wavenumber) the characteristic correlation time is halved.

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If corrections for heteroplasmy are necessary, then these values have to be halved (see discussion of pedigree studies above).

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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.

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The genetic variability is therefore expected to be halved in populations with very high frequencies of self-fertilization.

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Even then, overall child poverty is reduced by 1,650,000: roughly halved, not reduced to zero.

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Similarly, if the duration of carriage is halved to 4.5 months, then the average number of carriage episodes will double.

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When theflowis halved to 1.51/min/m2, blood pressure fell only slightly and, thus, the resistance increased dramatically.

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The death rate from strokes has almost halved since 1972, and there has also been a significant reduction in deaths from heart disease.

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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.

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The crossed diagonal bracing indicates that the members pass over one another - or are they halved together?

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使減半, 把…二等分, 減半…

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