Plural of moiety

Forms of moiety

Moieties in a sentence

• Forty-eight inventories in the Cornwall sample include references to ‘moieties’ or halves of livestock and crops, while a quarter of these also included moieties of farm equipment and household stock.2009, Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton, “Sharefarming Comes to Light: Early Modern Evidence”, in Farming to Halves: The Hidden History of...
• The villages are divided into two patrilineal totemic moieties and two patrilineal ceremonial moieties.1973, Francis Korn, “A Question of Preferences: The Iatmül Case”, in Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Lévi-Strauss on Kinship, Berkeley...
• The uranyl ion, UO₂⁺², is one of the most stable dielemental moieties known.1983, Modification of Polymers, Plenum Press, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry dielemental
• These arise through re-addition of the initially formed palladium hydride and subsequent antielimination of the trimethylsilyl and palladium moieties.1995, Alan Roy Katritzky, Otto Meth-Cohn, Stanley Michael Roberts, Comprehensive organic functional group transformations, page 490. From the entry trimethylsilyl
• On the other hand,GSLs in invertebrates have quite different glycan moieties from those of vertebrates, which are classified as arthro-, mollu-, gala-, neogala-, spirometo-, and schisto-series.2013, Daniel B. Werz, Sebastien Vidal, Modern Synthetic Methods in Carbohydrate Chemistry, →ISBN. From the entry schisto-series

Meaning of moiety

1. noun A half.
2. noun A share or portion, especially a smaller share.
3. noun Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.

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Questions about the plural of moiety

What is the plural of moiety?

The plural of moiety is moieties.

Is moiety countable?

Moiety is a countable noun.