Usually means: Thickness reducing radiation by half.
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  1. half-value layer: Dictionary.com
  2. Half-value layer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. half-value layer: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Half-value layer)

noun:  A material's half-value layer, or half-value thickness, is the thickness of the material at which the intensity of radiation entering it is reduced by one half.


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