semiscientific en · ADJ
Etymology
From semi- + scientific.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Partially scientific; having or using certain aspects of science.
League officials set the thresholds for suspension — on the seventh technical foul or the fourth flagrant-foul point — using a semiscientific approach.
2009 June 4, Howard Beck, “Numbers Crunched for Discipline Rules”, in New York Times: