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semismooth

semismooth adjective: partially smooth.

Adjective

semismooth (not comparable)

  1. Partially smooth
    • The SNCD is a novel combination of the semismooth Newton and coordinate descent algorithms.2015, Congrui Yi, Jian Huang, “Semismooth Newton Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Elastic-Net Penalized Huber Loss and Quantile Regression”, in arXiv

Origin of semismooth

From semi- + smooth.

Words formed from semismooth

Questions about semismooth

What does semismooth mean?
Semismooth means partially smooth.
What part of speech is semismooth?
Semismooth is an adjective.

Words near semismooth in the dictionary

  1. semislugs
  2. semismart
  3. semismile
  4. semismiles
  5. semismoked
  6. semismooth
  7. semismoothness
  8. semisocial
  9. semisocialism
  10. semisocialist
  11. semisoft

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