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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

semidefinite en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + definite.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not entirely definite; somewhat vague or undefined.
    • Coral rock has only a semidefinite shape. 1962, Bruno Klopfer, Helen Hiller Davidson, The Rorschach Technique: An Introductory Manual, page 99:
  2. (not-comparable) Describing a bilinear form, over a vector space, that is either always nonnegative or always nonpositive.

Deriveds

semidefiniteness · semidefinitely