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half-length

half-length adjective: half the normal length.

Adjective

half-length (not comparable)

  1. Half the normal length.
  2. Of a portrait, sculpture or a photograph, depicting only the upper half of the subject.

Noun

half-length (plural half-lengths)

  1. Half the length of a horse.
  2. A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.
    • His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron.1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97

half-length meaning in Tamil

half-length in Tamil

உடலின் மேற்பகுதியைக் காட்டும் உருவப்படம், முழுநீளத்தில் அரைப் பகுதியான

Forms of half-length

pluralhalf-lengths

Questions about half-length

What does half-length mean?
Half-length means half the normal length.
What is half-length in Tamil?
Half-length in Tamil is உடலின் மேற்பகுதியைக் காட்டும் உருவப்படம், முழுநீளத்தில் அரைப் பகுதியான. See Half-length meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is half-length?
Half-length can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near half-length in the dictionary

  1. half-jokingly
  2. half-kirtle
  3. half-kirtles
  4. half-landing
  5. half-landings
  6. half-length
  7. half-lengths
  8. half-life
  9. half-light
  10. half-line
  11. half-lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-length (page history and authors); half-length (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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