puolitus
Puolitus is a Finnish noun meaning the act or process of dividing something into two equal parts. The term derives from puoli, meaning half, combined with the nominalizing suffix -tus, which forms a noun describing a process or result.
In mathematics and geometry, puolitus can refer to halving a quantity or to the construction that yields
The concept is closely related to ideas of division and bi-partition, and is sometimes contrasted with general
See also: division, halving, bisection, partition, bisector.