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semi-naïve

semi-naïve is the alternative form of semi-naive.

Meaning of semi-naive

Adjective

semi-naive (comparative more semi-naive, superlative most semi-naive)

  1. Partially naive.
    • Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl.1980, Inside Sports, page 106
  2. Predominantly naive but including modifications that improve efficiency.
    • We would like to know if correlating some of the disjoint (and conditionally independent) feature subsets of a semi-naive Bayes can improve its predictive accuracy.2013, Concha Bielza, Antonio Salmeron, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN

Forms of semi-naïve

comparativemore semi-naïve
superlativemost semi-naïve

Questions about semi-naïve

What is semi-naïve the alternative form of?
Semi-naïve is the alternative form of semi-naive.

Words near semi-naïve in the dictionary

  1. semi-naive
  2. semi-naked
  3. semi-natural
  4. semi-naturalistic
  5. semi-naïf
  6. semi-naïve
  7. semi-nerdy
  8. semi-new
  9. semi-nomadic
  10. semi-nomadism
  11. semi-norm

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