semilow

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ low.

Adjective

semilow (not comparable)

1. Slightly low.
   • 1919, G Kelville Davis, The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer:

     The smokeless fuel produced in the McLaurin low-temperature process cannot correctly be termed a low-temperature product, nor even a semilow-temperature product.

   • 1956, Eunice V. Pike, Not Alone, page 48:

     We now knew that the language had four essential pitches — high, semihigh, semilow, and low.

   • 2015, José Blanco F., Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst, Heather Vaughan Lee, Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, →ISBN:

     During the antebellum period women's day dresses had semilow décolletage and even lower for evening.

   • 2015, Rebecca Stanton, Tura, →ISBN:

     I knew that I had achieved the very best rank I could have got, being held back only by my semilow social status.

2. (set theory) Such that there exists a nonempty intersection (with another set) that is low.
   • 2015, Peter Cholak, Rachel Epstein, “Computably Enumerable Sets that are Automorphic to Low Sets”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We show that in every non low \ce degree, there are sets with semilow$_{1.5}$ complements without semilow complements as well as sets with semilow$_{2}$ complements and the outer splitting property that do not have semilow$_{1.5}$ complements.

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