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semicoercive

semicoercive adjective: continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.

Adjective

semicoercive (not comparable)

  1. Continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.
    • As a model example we consider a unilateral semicoercive contact problem with nonmonotone friction and provide numerical results for benchmark tests..2015, Nina Ovcharova, Joachim Gwinner, “Semicoercive Variational Inequalities - From Existence to Numerical Solution of Nonmonotone Contact Problems”, in arXiv
  2. Somewhat coercive; allowing only minimal free action.
    • It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent.1967, Charles O. Lerche, Foreign Policy of the American People, page 17
    • But nearly all the increase was attributable to bonds of state units, which were often placed in a semicoercive manner.1975, Vinod Dubey, Yugoslavia, Development with Decentralization, →ISBN

Examples of semicoercive in a sentence

  • They have also taken a number of initiatives which are coercive, or semicoercive, measures as far as denying ration books for more than a certain number of children.1976, Douglas N. Ross, The Challenge of overpopulation and food shortages:
  • The question is, then, what causes a regime to move beyond its functional range to become a disrupted or semicoercive regime that ends in repudiation by large or critical segments of the population?1978, Juan José Linz, The breakdown of democratic regimes:

Origin of semicoercive

From semi- + coercive.

Questions about semicoercive

What does semicoercive mean?
Semicoercive means continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.
How do you use semicoercive in a sentence?
They have also taken a number of initiatives which are coercive, or semicoercive, measures as far as denying ration books for more than a certain number of children.
What part of speech is semicoercive?
Semicoercive is an adjective.

Words near semicoercive in the dictionary

  1. semiclonal
  2. semiclosed
  3. semicloseted
  4. semiclosure
  5. semicoagulated
  6. semicoercive
  7. semicoherent
  8. semicoke
  9. semicokes
  10. semicola
  11. semicollapsed

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