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Definition of Half-time

1. Adjective. Involving half the standard or customary time for an activity. "He had two years of half-time training"

2. Adverb. For less than the standard number of hours. "He works part-time"

Definition of Half-time

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of half time) ¹

2. Adjective. of, or relating to half time ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Half-time

1. The time, in a first-order chemical (or enzymic) reaction, for half of the substance (substrate) to be converted or to disappear. Compare: half-life. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-time

half-sibling half-siblings half-sister half-sisters half-size half-slip half-staff half-standard half-step half-steps

half-term half-tetrad analysis half-timber half-timbered half-timbering half-time (current term) half-title half-track half-tracked half-tracker

half-tracks half-truth half-truths half-uncle half-uncles half-value layer half-volley half-width half-widths half-wit

Literary usage of Half-time

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by New South Wales Dept. of Education (1896)
"Three small schools, M 'Donald's Creek Public, Leaning Oak Provisional, and Campbell's Creek half-time, did not reopen at the commencement of the year 1895. ..."

2. Report by New South Wales Dept. of Education (1894)
"Public 74 Provisional - 2 half-time 8 Total 84 Only two applications for the establishment of new schools were received. One of these (Cudmirrah) was ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Mr. Bolton, head-master of a Half-Time Factory School at Bradford, where nearly five hundred children are now being taught, and who has had seven years' ..."

4. Comparative Education: Studies of the Educational Systems of Six Modern Nations by Peter Sandiford, Isaac Leon Kandel, Harold Waldstein Foght, Arthur H. Hope (1918)
"Where standards for half-time attendance are low advantage is also taken of the ... Hence few children in the textile towns permitting half- time receive ..."

5. Report by New South Wales Dept. of Education (1895)
"AT the commencement of 1894 the re were 83 schools in operation, classified as—Public, 53; Provisional, 15; half-time, 14; House-to-house, 1. Total, 83. ..."

6. Report by New South Wales Dept. of Education (1897)
"AT the close of 1805 there were in the Bega section of the Goulburn District 99 schools, made up as follow :—69 Public, 10 Provisional, and 20 half-time. ..."

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