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What does half-line mean?

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Noun
  1. (geometry) ray; a line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
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The matrix Sturm-Liouville operator with an integrable potential on the half-line is considered.
This article deals with the differential equations of fractional order on the half-line.
Sometimes, in the same way as with the first, a syllable is dropped at the opening, and the half-line becomes similarly trochaic.
It is also the only alliterating syllable in the second half-line.
The trichina capsules commonly measure about one-fifth of a line long, and the coiled worm within is scarcely a half-line long.
Every normal line of Old English poetry has four primary accents, two in the first half-line and two in the second half-line.

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