Third-person singular simple present indicative form of do by half-measures

past participle of do by half-measures

(idiomatic) A person's life, when lost through death in service to a nation or cause, particularly as a member of a military force in war or a semi-militarized organization such as a police force or civil defense corps, e.g. fire departments. May also be applied to some dangerous government and civil occupations such as espionage.

Alternative form of measurement problem

Alternative form of do by halves

(statistics, probability) A measure of location for a batch, a sample, or a distribution characterizing a value around which are spread the members or the distribution.

To try someone's skill in the use of the sword. / (figuratively) To match one's abilities against an antagonist's.

plural of σ-finite measure

(mathematical analysis) (of a set in some k-dimensional Euclidean space) That it is an element of the domain of the Lebesgue measure of the ambient Euclidean space.

(mathematical analysis, of a function) Such that the inverse image of any open set in its codomain is a Borel set of its domain.