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semibent

semibent adjective: bent part way.

Adjective

semibent (not comparable)

  1. Bent part way.
    • The patient is easiest when the fore-arm is semibent.1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery: Voume II: The surgical anatomy of the human body, and its application to injuries, and operations
    • The details of this position are as follows: first, all of your fingers are semibent, but in scale, meaning that the pinky is the most bent, the ring finger a little less, the middle finger even less so, and the index finger more or less even with the middle.2006, Asanaro, Joice Buccarey, & Benjamin Kelley, The Secret Art of Boabom, →ISBN, page 186
  2. Having a Walsh transform that contains only the values {0, ±2(n+1)/2}, when n is odd.
    • As applications of this construction, we show several series of linear codes over f#95;#123;2ᵗ#125; with two or three weights by using bent, semibent, monomial and quadratic Boolean function f..2015, Can Xiang, Keqin Feng, Chunming Tang, “A Construction of Linear Codes over f_2ᵗ from Boolean Functions”, in arXiv

Origin of semibent

From semi- + bent.

Questions about semibent

What does semibent mean?
Semibent means bent part way.
What part of speech is semibent?
Semibent is an adjective.

Words near semibent in the dictionary

  1. semibarren
  2. semibasement
  3. semibasements
  4. semibearable
  5. semibenevolent
  6. semibent
  7. semibiographical
  8. semibiographically
  9. semibiographies
  10. semibiography
  11. semibiotrophic

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