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Half Volley: A volley shot made after a short bounce

Half-Rate: A variant of GSM, Half-Rate doubles system capacity by more efficient speech coding.

Half-Rhyme: Rhyming only with the consonants in the terminal syllable(s) of a multi-syllable word. An example is 'concrete' and 'litcrit'. Also termed 'off-rhyme,' 'slant rhyme,' or apophany, in which t . . . View Full Definition

Half-Stock: The point in the life of a mortgage-backed security guaranteed or issued by the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan M . . . View Full Definition

Half-Power Point: The region of the radar beam where the signal strength drops to 1/2 of that strength measured at the main axis.

Half-Plate: Picture format measuring 4 ¾ x 6 ½ inches. Some early cameras produced negatives of this size.

Half-Life: The time required for one-half of an original unstable radioactive element to be converted to a more stable daughter element.

Half-Line: part of a line bounded by a caesura or some upper limit of syllables or stresses.

Half-Nut: A lever-operated mechanism that resembles a split nut that can be closed on the leadscrew of a lathe when threads are being cut.

Half-Sum: An alternate term for mid-point, the point in the zodiac that lies exactly midway between two planets.