Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The interval between the two halves of a sports match.

    Let's get some pizza at half-time.

    Halbzeitpause, Pause

    таймtajm

    таймtajm

  2. (attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable)Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period.

    I'm following a half-time schedule this month.

  3. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value.

    полови́на вре́мениpolovína vrémeni

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sports: interval between halves:
Русский
By meaning 2
sports: interval between halves:
time to halve the difference between present value and final value:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sports: interval between halves:

Origin

From half- + time.

From half- + time.

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Forms

plural: half-times

Word family

1 related words
Derivedhalf-timer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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