Half-length

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Half-length \Half"-length`\ (-l[e^]ngth`), a.
     Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  abridged \abridged\ adj.
     1. 1 shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts:
        an abridged version [Narrower terms: {half-length}]
        {unabridged, full-length}
  
     Syn: condensed
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  half-length
       adj 1: representing only the upper half of the body; "a half-length
              portrait"
       2: abridged to half its original length
       n : a portrait showing the body from only the waist up