halving in English

noun

half, one part of two equal parts

Use "halving" in a sentence

1. Halving the repeater spacing made it possible to quadruple the bandwidth.

2. Volume Conversions are an important step when doubling or halving a recipe

3. Progress is distressingly slow on the United Nations’ goal of halving the number of hungry people by 2015.

4. A short course of Azt has been shown to be capable of halving the incidence of transmission of HIV from mother to baby.

5. Particularly, the February 2009 Black Saturday bushfires destroyed 43% of Leadbeater's possums' habitat in the Central Highlands, halving the wild population to 1,500.

6. Successive paper sizes in the series A1, A2, A3, and so forth, are defined by halving the preceding paper size across the larger dimension.

7. Because H is a halving subgroup, M = H ∪ (G\H)1′ has the same number of symmetry elements as G, and exactly half are Antisymmetry operations.

8. To maximize the contribution that better health makes to reducing poverty and economic development – and thus to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of people living in absolute poverty by 2015.

9. Based on the international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day, Bangladesh reduced poverty from 44.2 percent in 1991 to 18.5 percent in 2010, and is projected to decrease to 12.9 percent in 2016.The country achieved the MDG 1 on halving poverty five years ahead of time, wi

10. ‘The halving of annuities under the 1933 land act meant that the state had to pay 50 percent of the price of the holding when it was sold to the Allottee.’ ‘Besides, to acquire a holding, ‘the standard of farm competence required was very modest’ (so modest in fact as to necessitate in his opinion that each Allottee be placed under an