half-length

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half-length - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

  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]

half-length - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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