moiety

IPA: mˈɔɪti

A half.
A share or portion, especially a smaller share.
(anthropology) Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.
(chemistry) A specific segment of a molecule.

Examples of "moiety" in Sentences

That she left off her moiety and people amused me.
The family belongs to a clan, and the clan to a moiety.
-- in other words, a moiety of the whiskey he had drunk.
The falcon motif of the ruling moiety was tattooed on his face.
Nor do you introduce yourself with your lineage, clan, or moiety.
Law French terms such as moiety, femme and baron hark back to a time when all lawyers were required to learn and practice in French because the ruling class had once spoken French.
In addition, by combining a flavine mononucleotide with a protein moiety of Warburg's yellow enzyme, Kuhn and Rudy produced the very first partial synthesis of a fully functional enzyme.
The role of this conjugate was not clear at the time, though its level was found to be dynamic and change during differentiation, when the histone moiety is subjected to ubiquitination and de-ubiquitination.