semicoercive

Meanings

adjectivesemicoercive (not comparable)

not comparablemathematicsContinuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.
As a model example we consider a unilateral semicoercive contact problem with nonmonotone friction and provide numerical results for benchmark tests..
2015, Nina Ovcharova, Joachim Gwinner, “Semicoercive Variational Inequalities - From Existence to Numerical Solution of Nonmonotone Contact Problems”, in arXiv
not comparableSomewhat coercive; allowing only minimal free action.
But nearly all the increase was attributable to bonds of state units, which were often placed in a semicoercive manner.
1975, Vinod Dubey, Yugoslavia, Development with Decentralization, →ISBN
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It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent.
1967, Charles O. Lerche, Foreign Policy of the American People, page 17
They have also taken a number of initiatives which are coercive, or semicoercive, measures as far as denying ration books for more than a certain number of children.
1976, Douglas N. Ross, The Challenge of overpopulation and food shortages
The question is, then, what causes a regime to move beyond its functional range to become a disrupted or semicoercive regime that ends in repudiation by large or critical segments of the population?
1978, Juan José Linz, The breakdown of democratic regimes

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