mediety

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mediety

  • /mɪˈdaɪ.ɪti/

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From the late Middle English medietee (“a half”), borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās. Doublet of moiety.

noun medieties

  1. obsolete The middle part; half; moiety. [creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below
  2. Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.

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@misc{mediety_2026,
  title = {mediety},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mediety},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}