semibent

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adjective

Bent part way.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivesemibent (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBent part way.

    The patient is easiest when the fore-arm is semibent.

    1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery: Voume II: The surgical anatomy of the human body, and its application to injuries, and operations
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    The details of this position are as follows: first, all of your fingers are semibent, but in scale, meaning that the pinky is the most bent, the ring finger a little less, the middle finger even less so, and the index finger more or less even with the middle.

    2006, Asanaro, Joice Buccarey, & Benjamin Kelley, The Secret Art of Boabom, →ISBN, page 186
  2. not comparablemathematicsHaving a Walsh transform that contains only the values {0, ±2(n+1)/2}, when n is odd.

    As applications of this construction, we show several series of linear codes over f#95;#123;2ᵗ#125; with two or three weights by using bent, semibent, monomial and quadratic Boolean function f..

    2015, Can Xiang, Keqin Feng, Chunming Tang, “A Construction of Linear Codes over f_2ᵗ from Boolean Functions”, in arXiv

Origin

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