dimidiation

About 0.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of dividing into halves.
2. noun The condition of being divided into halves.
3. noun A marshalling of two coats of arms by the bisection per pale of their escutcheons and forming a new coat of arms from the dexter half of one coat and the sinister half of the other.

Similar words

quadrisection equidivision tripartition hexachotomy fractioning halfth half moiety half-deal bisegment

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