Moiety

Noun

 * 1) Half.
 * 2) * 1832, The Christmas Box, edited by T. Crofton Croker:
 * From New Holland the emu,
 * With his better moiety,
 * Has paid a visit to the Zoological Society.
 * 1) A share or portion.
 * 2)  A specific segment of a molecule.
 * Aniline has both a phenyl and an amino moiety.
 * 1)  Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.
 * 2) * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
 * The death of Antony 
 * Is not a single doom; in the name lay 
 * A moiety of the world.

Thesaurus
allotment, allowance, ashram, big end, bigger half, bisection, bit, bite, body, budget, butt, caste, chip, chunk, clan, class, clip, clipping, collop, colony, commission, commonwealth, commune, community, contingent, crumb, cut, cutting, deal, destiny, dividend, division, dole, dollop, economic class, end, endogamous group, equal share, equidistance, extended family, family, fate, fifty percent, fifty-fifty, fragment, gens, gob, gobbet, half, half-and-half, halfway house, halver, helping, hemisphere, hunk, interest, kinship group, lot, lump, measure, mediety, meed, member, mess, mid-distance, midcourse, middle distance, midway, modicum, morsel, nuclear family, order, parcel, paring, part, particle, percentage, phratria, phratry, phyle, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, scoop, scrap, section, segment, semicircle, semisphere, settlement, shard, share, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, social class, society, splinter, stake, stitch, stock, stump, subcaste, tatter, totem

Etymology
From the meitié (French moitié), from  medietas “half”, from medius “middle, half”

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 官能團
 * Czech:


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