moiety
noun
a half.
moieties
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pluralof moiety.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The reported compounds in question are NiII-coordinated norcorroles with modified aryl moieties as side chains.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
The high reactive plasma chemical moieties provide enough energy that could be compensated by high temperature.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2024
Molecules with F-H, O-H, or N-H moieties are very strongly attracted to similar moieties in nearby molecules, a particularly strong type of dipole-dipole attraction called hydrogen bonding.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
From a highly disordered background, moieties resembling PF6 units emerged.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
Thus clapped together, as it were, he looked like a union of the unmatched moieties of two distinct beings; and your fancy was lost in conjecturing, where roamed the absent ones.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
