Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unbounded in one direction or dimension.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bounded by an infinite plane: said of a medium whose only boundary is a plane surface.
- Limited at one end and extending to infinity away from it.
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Examples
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Ellison has been at the center of a semi-infinite run of petty dramas since I personally was old enough to read.
MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present? 2008
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All your reasons in favor of immortality presuppose semi-infinite resources as well as equal access to them, capability to expand into space, and a totally flat social organization with direct representation.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Four Arguments FOR Immortality 2010
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Basically the problem is the semi-infinite one-dimensional heat equation with source at x=0 (the surface), but that boundary condition depends on a relationship between dT/dx and T at x = 0 (I think this qualifies as mixed boundary conditions - not Dirichlet or Neumann anyway).
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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There are many ways to reduce or alleviate such inherent arithmetical errors, including the most obvious: fixed point semi-infinite precision arithmetic.
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She seemed to be semi-infinite as her often melodious speaking voice was unimaginable in one direction and limited in another.
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She seemed to be semi-infinite as her often melodious speaking voice was unimaginable in one direction and limited in another.
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The World Wide Web is the multimedia version of the Internet, where you can get not only text but also pictures and sounds on a semi-infinite range of topics, stored on "" Web pages, '' maintained by companies, institutions, and individuals.
Lost In Cyberspace 2008
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From these sources it can be estimated that on a windless or near windless days for a semi-infinite slab that the Tmax increase would be expected to approach 1F for a Temp sensor bounded by a road.
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Disjoint semi-infinite lines perhaps In those early papers, the largest problem in CI computation seems to be the possibility of , proxy = zero * temperature + noise in this context.
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No, your response is just another of a semi-infinite number of examples of PT logic that goes like this:
Area clergy make room for evolution with the divine - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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