semiempirically

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adverb

Partly empirically.

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Meanings

adverbsemiempirically (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePartly empirically.

    Van der Waals (vdW) forces were added semiempirically to the dispersion energy as a contribution proportional to R –6 (where R is the atomic distance) ( 28 ).

    2009 August 28, Leo Gross et al., “The Chemical Structure of a Molecule Resolved by Atomic Force Microscopy”, in Science, volume 325, number 5944, →DOI, pages 1110–1114

Origin

From semi- + empirically.

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