one-half 二分之一
one-half[ noun ]
one of two equal parts of a divisible whole
<noun.quantity>
half a loafhalf an hour
a century and one half
one-half \one-half\ n.
one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; a half; a
century and one half.
Syn: half.
[WordNet 1.5]
- The basic Amiga 2000 comes with two disk drives and one-half megabyte of memory, or 512 kilobytes.
- One Dekalb Class B share will receive one-half share of a non-voting Dekalb Genetics Class B common, as well as one voting share of Pride Petroleum common.
- One-third to more than one-half the country's 8,000 major enterprises are expected to go broke in a few months.
- But The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported today that Quayle actually held that position for only two and one-half months.
- The volume of shipments of corn, wheat and sobybeans jumped 24 percent to record levels, with one-half of that increase coming in higher sales to the Soviet Union.
- Last week, the Canyon area was evacuated when flames from the 33,265-acre Wolf Lake fire burned to within one-half mile of the complex, which now houses a firefighters' camp.
- The boost in petroleum-based energy prices, up at a 22.4 percent annual rate so far this year, accounted for nearly one-half of the first quarter price acceleration, the Labor Department said.
- Mr. Heady's newsletter reports that compared with other one-half point increases in the prime in the past, CD yields have been weakest in the wake of the most recent increase July 14 to 9 1/2%.
- "In New Jersey, in any given year, the increase in Medicaid necessary just to maintain current services consumed about one-half of all the new funds available for our department," according to Mr. Altman.
- Both will be striving for a $36 billion package that, in the Senate, consists at least one-third of tax increases and, in the House, at least one-half of tax increases.
- Young also ordered that the two boys who had been charged with sex offenses must each pay one-half the medical expenses of the alleged rape victim, a 16-year-old girl.
- By the end of 1987 the proportion of income earners paying tax at a marginal rate of 40% or more will have reached almost one-half; 10 years ago it was about one-fifth.
- Kasparov is assured at least a tie for first place even if he loses his final game Sunday and Karpov wins, since a win counts one point and a draw one-half.
- It is home to one-half the country's 285 million people and includes Moscow.
- Wyss said that based on banks' cost of funds, an increase of 0.25 percentage points in the prime rate on Thursday would have been more justified than the one-half percentage point increase which did occur.
- Kaulukukui is one-half Hawaiian, his three children are one-quarter and his four grandchildren one-eighth.
- The federal government taxes employers up to $5.60 a year for each worker to finance state and federal administrative costs, loans to states and one-half of an extended benefits program.
- Also yesterday, the Bank of England pushed British banks to raise their base lending rate one-half percentage point to 9%.
- Analysts say the premium has been cut by one-third to one-half.
- The exceptions are: _If you provide more than one-half of a parent's support, and the parent earns less than $1,900 a year, you may claim the $1,000 dependency exemption on your tax return.
- Nearly two-thirds of Holly Farms' roughly $14 million in fiscal first-half marketing expenditures for the product went to media advertising; that proportion is being lowered to about one-half, the company said.
- In the first year, the beneficial fungus infected only about one-half of 1 percent of the stalk rot fungus, Fusarium moniliforme, in the stalks.
- In auto parts and heavy equipment, these Japanese ratios are often one-half to one-quarter the Americans'.
- The May figures supported the government's prediction that the Netherlands will experience deflation of one-half percentage point this year, following no price movement last year and inflation of 2.3% in 1985, ministry officials said.
- "Your midyear evaluations will be prepared in approximately one and one-half months," the memo warned.
- Visibility there Monday was one-half mile, he said.
- In the past two weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have jumped an average one-half percentage point nationally, to nearly 11%, lenders estimate.
- An additional 20 states plan to test and license between one-fourth and one-half of their drivers in the final three months before the deadline, which the study said probably is impossible.
- "There is tremendous resentment." And a pipeline in northern Iraq which in the past carried as much as one-half of the country's former exports, or 1.5 million barrels daily, hasn't been used since the Gulf crisis began in August 1990.
- They contribute one-third of IBM's sales, one-half its profit and "are going through a resurgence," he adds.