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semilow

semilow adjective: slightly low.

Adjective

semilow (not comparable)

  1. Slightly low.
    • The smokeless fuel produced in the McLaurin low-temperature process cannot correctly be termed a low-temperature product, nor even a semilow-temperature product.1919, G Kelville Davis, The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer
    • We now knew that the language had four essential pitches — high, semihigh, semilow, and low.1956, Eunice V. Pike, Not Alone, page 48
  2. Such that there exists a nonempty intersection (with another set) that is low.
    • We show that in every non low \ce degree, there are sets with semilow#95;#123;1.5#125; complements without semilow complements as well as sets with semilow#95;2 complements and the outer splitting property that do not have semilow#95;#123;1.5#125; complements.2015, Peter Cholak, Rachel Epstein, “Computably Enumerable Sets that are Automorphic to Low Sets”, in arXiv

Examples of semilow in a sentence

  • During the antebellum period women's day dresses had semilow décolletage and even lower for evening.2015, José Blanco F., Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst, Heather Vaughan Lee, Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, →ISBN:
  • I knew that I had achieved the very best rank I could have got, being held back only by my semilow social status.2015, Rebecca Stanton, Tura, →ISBN:

Origin of semilow

From semi- + low.

Questions about semilow

What does semilow mean?
Semilow means slightly low.
How do you use semilow in a sentence?
During the antebellum period women's day dresses had semilow décolletage and even lower for evening.
What part of speech is semilow?
Semilow is an adjective.

Words near semilow in the dictionary

  1. semiloopoids
  2. semiloops
  3. semiloose
  4. semilor
  5. semilore
  6. semilow
  7. semiloyal
  8. semiloyalty
  9. semilucent
  10. semilucid
  11. semilucidity

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