The act of dividing something into two equal parts or reducing something to half.
Present participle of 'dimidiate,' following the Latin root 'dimidiare.' The '-ing' suffix transforms the verb into its continuous form, maintaining the meaning of the process of halving.
This is a word you'd find in medieval manuscripts when heralds were literally describing the artistic process of cutting coats of arms in half—it's like saying 'we are now halving this design.'
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