Definition of "halving" []

• Present participle of halve. (verb)

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• "McGinley appeared to be enjoying himself in halving his match teamed with Clarke against Hoch and Furyk late Saturday, but he is in over his head."
• "Mr. Bloomberg has long said he believes larger class sizes with better teachers are preferable to smaller ones with mediocre teachers, but the idea of halving the city's 75,000-member teaching workforce drew sharp criticism from mayoral candidates, parents and the teachers union."
• "If the halving is a very wide one, additional cuts may be sawn between the outside marks, and these will greatly facilitate the removal of the waste wood when paring it away."