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Definition of Halma

Halma
Halma Hal"ma, n. A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress.
Halma
Halma Hal"ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to leap.] (Greek Antiq.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.

Meaning of Halma from wikipedia

- Halma (from Gr****: ἅλμα, romanized: hálma, meaning “leap") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic...
- Halma plc is a British global group of safety equipment companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection based in Amersham, England...
- Halma is a city in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The po****tion was 58 at the 2020 census. A post office called Halma began operation in 1904...
- with partners. The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma. The objective is to be first to race all of one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped...
- Halma may refer to: Halma, a board game invented by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School Nicholas Halma (1755-1828)...
- parodied Capote, deliberately copying his pose in the Halma photograph. Random House featured the Halma photograph in its "This is Truman Capote" ads, and...
- Stenoma halmas is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Peru. The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are light fuscous irrorated grey...
- Nicholas Halma (31 December 1755, Sedan, Ardennes – 4 June 1828, Paris) was a French mathematician and translator. He was educated at the College of Plessis...
- Leona halma, or Evans' recluse, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic...
- co-creator of NASA's Space Lidar Technology Center. Avo was acquired by Halma, p.l.c., in 2011 as part of their global photonics division. Avo Photonics'...