• In chemistry, a moiety is a specific segment of a molecule. For example, aniline has a phenyl and an amino moiety. Ethidium bromide also has both of these.
• In anthropology, moiety is a term used to describe each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.
• In law, moiety means half of something, such as an inheritance.
• Octavius Caesar uses the term moiety in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra after he learns of the death of Antony:

The breaking of so great a thing should make

A greater crack. The round world

Should have shook lions into civil streets

And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony

Is not a single doom; in the name lay

A moiety of the world.

Caesar's message symbolizes the gravity of Antony's death, as it represented the triumph of Rome — and of Western civilization — over Cleopatra and Egypt.

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