Both Uses of
moiety
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He has washed the upper moiety.†
Chpt 3 *
- She admired: a natural phenomenon having been explained by him to her she expressed the immediate desire to possess without gradual acquisition a fraction of his science, the moiety, the quarter, a thousandth part.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(moiety) one of two (approximately) equal parts
or:
chemistry: a significant segment, portion or part of a molecule that may include a substructure of the functional group