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seminaive

seminaive 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 seminaive

comparativemore seminaive
superlativemost seminaive

Questions about seminaive

What is seminaive the alternative form of?
Seminaive is the alternative form of semi-naive.

Words near seminaive in the dictionary

  1. semimystic
  2. semimystical
  3. semimythic
  4. semimythical
  5. semimythological
  6. seminaive
  7. seminaked
  8. seminal
  9. seminal fluid
  10. seminal vesicle
  11. seminal vesicles

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