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- not comparableSlightly low.
We now knew that the language had four essential pitches — high, semihigh, semilow, and low.
1956, Eunice V. Pike, Not Alone, page 483 more examples
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 EngineerDuring 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, →ISBNI 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 - not comparablemathematicsSuch 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
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