Definition of "half-time"

half-time

noun
countable and uncountable, plural half-times
1. (sports) The interval between the two halves of a sports match.
2. (sometimes attributive) Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period.
3. (music) A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar).
4. (physics) The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value.
adjective
not comparable
1. Pertaining to or characterized by half the usual duration.
  Quotations
  The remedy proposed is half-time schools. The teachers are to be engaged for a school year's service, but the pupils belonging to each school are to be divided into two sections. Each section is to spend half the time in school and the remainder at home.
  1884, The Ohio Educational Monthly, page 544
  The remaining federal and State programs provide aid to part-time students only if attendance is half-time or more (at least six credit-hours).
  1979, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and Related Measures: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ...., page 162
adverb
not comparable
1. In a half time manner.

Definition of "half-time"

half-time

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