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quasi

/ˈkweɪzaɪ/US/ˈkwɑːˌzaɪ/

quasi adjective: resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.

Adjective

quasi (not comparable)

  1. Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
    • So in summation gentlemen. What you have before you is a troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi tank that has less armor than a snowblower, god has enough ammo to take out half of D.C.1998, The Pentagon Wars
    • The presiding officer of the assembly does not appoint a chairman of the quasi committee, but remains in the chair himself throughout its proceedings.2000, Henry Martyn Robert with Sarah Corbin Robert, Robert's Rules of Order, 10th revised edition, page 522

quasi meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Odia

quasi in Tamil

போல்ம, அன்ன, அரையளவான, ஆங்கு, பகுதியளவில், போல்வு

quasi in Urdu

quasi
ازقسم azqism

quasi in Bengali

সদৃশ, আধা

quasi in Odia

କ୍ୱାସି

Examples of quasi in a sentence

  • That's why the dark, distant quasi planet in our solar system bears his name.
  • The relation of being a descendant is defined as the quasi ordering generated by immediate descendance.
  • We first derive a set of invariantly defined "velocities", which allow for an inambiguous definition of the quasi--static approximation.

All 10 example sentences with quasi

Origin of quasi

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).

Words formed from quasi

Phrases with quasi

Words that rhyme with quasi

Questions about quasi

What does quasi mean?
Quasi means resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
What is quasi in Tamil?
Quasi in Tamil is போல்ம, அன்ன, அரையளவான. See Quasi meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quasi?
Quasi is an adjective.
How do you pronounce quasi?
Quasi is pronounced /ˈkweɪzaɪ/ (UK).

Words near quasi in the dictionary

  1. quashing
  2. quashings
  3. Quashqai
  4. quasht
  5. quashy
  6. quasi
  7. quasi corporation
  8. quasi corporations
  9. quasi partner
  10. quasi partners
  11. quasi-

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quasi (page history and authors); quasi (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ازقسم (Urdu) (page history and authors); quasi (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quasi (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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