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English
Etymology
From the late Middle English medietee (“a half”), borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās. Doublet of moiety.
Pronunciation
Noun
mediety (plural medieties)
- (obsolete) The middle part; half; moiety.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:[creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below
1846, Alfred Inigo Suckling, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, page 282:The rectory of Pakefield was in medieties from a period before the Norman Conquest, each mediety having its patron, who presented to his portion upon every vacancy in succession, and not in alternate patronage;
- Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.