half-length

Questions about half-length

What does half-length mean?

half-length means "representing only the upper half of the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in half-length?

half-length has 2 syllables: hal-f-length. The stress falls on "hal".

Is half-length a common word?

half-length is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.