moiety
/ˈmɔɪɪti
/noun (plural moieties) formal or technical
1Each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided: the tax was to be delivered in two moieties...
- Bond lengths and bond angles are held fixed at standard equilibrium values and aromatic moieties are assigned planar conformations unless found otherwise by experiment.
- The plots show that residues lining the gorge have the largest velocity covariance with the gorge, and residues in the same moiety as the gorge move concertedly away from the gorge when it opens.
- Because electronic polarization is accounted for by the choice of background dielectric, dipolar moieties are assigned charges consistent with their permanent dipole moments.
1.1 Anthropology Each of two social or ritual groups into which a people is divided, especially among Australian Aborigines and some American Indians.The matrilineal moieties, for example, articulate the matrilineally transmitted ‘flesh’ or totems....
- In this way the matrilineal moieties may also be referred to as vara as well as tavalui ‘sides’.
- Tlingit society is divided into two primary clans or moieties, subclans or clans, and houses.
1.2A part or portion, especially a lesser share.
1.3 Chemistry A distinct part of a large molecule: the enzyme removes the sulphate moiety...
- The volume of a hydrocarbon chain, v, does not change in the course of membrane deformations, because the hydrocarbon moiety of a lipid molecule is practically incompressible.
- Possible couplings might be fluorinated groups with hydrocarbons, hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties, siloxanes, and hydrocarbons, etc, and in the present case, chiral and achiral halves.
- In addition, this secondary amine presents some steric impediment by the glucose molecule from the terpenoid moiety.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French moite, from Latin medietas 'middle', from medius 'mid, middle'.