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What is the noun for halves?

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half
  1. One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided
    1. (sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
  2. Half of a standard measure; frequently used (Britain) for half a pint of beer or cider.
  3. (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
  4. (obsolete) part; side; behalf
  5. Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
  6. (slang) A half sibling.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Can you help mother find the other half of the pair of socks that got blown away by the wind?”
halver
  1. a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide
  2. (plural only) sharing in halves
  3. Examples:
    1. “She was born May 7, 1913, near Regina, Saskatchewan, to Halver and Elizabeth Fleak Rose.”
halfer
  1. (obsolete) One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.
  2. (obsolete) A gelded male fallow deer.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Buy the plans to build your own, or come see us about building your own private backyard halfer.”
      “I didn't bother with the second halfer with the second half and spent the rest of the afternoon hitting balls on the range.”
      “The winner for October 24 is KING HALFER I PRESUME from Mr R A Wallace of Sutton Coldfield.”
halfsies
  1. (childish) The condition of splitting something in half in order to share it.
halfness
  1. The quality of being half; incompleteness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.”
halvesies
  1. Alternative form of halfsies
halving
  1. (mathematics) The process or instance of dividing in half.
  2. Synonyms:
halfe
  1. Archaic spelling of half.
halfendeal
  1. (archaic) A half.
halfs
  1. (nonstandard) plural of half (alternative form of halves).
halfnesses
  1. plural of halfness
halvings
halfers
  1. plural of halfer
halvers
  1. plural of halver
  2. Examples:
    1. “Well, my brother wants to go halvers on a dual exhaust system for my dad's Christmas present this year.”
      “I confess to a certain self-interest here, as I still had hopes of his going halvers on a ticket.”
      “We went halvers on this but I ended up with both the original disk and the manual.”
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