halving
present participle ofhalve
| 单词 | halving |
| 释义 | halving present participle ofhalve halve verb uk/hɑːv/us/hæv/[T] toreducesomething byhalfordividesomething into twoequalpieces: In the past eightyears, theelephantpopulationinAfricahas been halved. Thepotatoeswillcookmorequicklyif you halve them before you put them in theoven. [I] If something halves, it isreducedbyhalf: Theirprofitshave halved in the last sixmonths. Becoming and making smaller or less
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division Examplesofhalvinghalving In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Halvingkernels resulted in extremely high leakage, especially during the first hours of imbibition. From theCambridge English Corpus Ahalvingof substitution elasticities implies an economy that in an international context is rather inflexible, however. From theCambridge English Corpus Repeatedlyhalvingthat sequence at successive levels of recursion leads to shorter and shorter sequences at deeper nodes in the tree. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, in both trials ahalvingof damage would have represented an increase of almost 50% in marketable produce. From theCambridge English Corpus The model predicts that this change in herding pattern would result in a furtherhalvingof the post-treatment equilibrium tsetse population (fig. 10). From theCambridge English Corpus Subtracting the difference from the sum andhalvingthis (result) makes the base. From theCambridge English Corpus We note that doubling is here treated beforehalving, though in chapter 3 it was the other way round. From theCambridge English Corpus The pianists then ignore thehalvingof the tempo at rehearsal 246. From theCambridge English Corpus The significance level for a two-sided test can be transformed into an equivalent level for a one-sided test byhalvingit. From theCambridge English Corpus The rates for the first half of 2001 were estimated byhalvingthe denominator for 2000. From theCambridge English Corpus Estimating byhalvingthe population therefore creates a bias on the high side as it includes the group of 15-18year-olds. From theCambridge English Corpus Adding up the difference to the sum andhalvingthis (result) makes the height. From theCambridge English Corpus Halvingsexagesimals, by contrast, beg ins with the lowest place. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, whenhalvingthe stepsize for the nodes, earlier function values can be used in the finer rule. From theCambridge English Corpus Halvingthe width of the two-dimensional jet adjacent to the walls, thereby approximatelyhalvingits energy content, produced a much smoother wall boundary flow. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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