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semilow en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + low.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Slightly low.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • We now knew that the language had four essential pitches — high, semihigh, semilow, and low. 1956, Eunice V. Pike, Not Alone, page 48:
  2. (not-comparable) 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: