semibent

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English

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Etymology

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From semi- +‎ bent.

Adjective

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semibent (not comparable)

  1. Bent part way.
    • 1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery: Voume II: The surgical anatomy of the human body, and its application to injuries, and operations:
      The patient is easiest when the fore-arm is semibent.
    • 2006, Asanaro, Joice Buccarey, & Benjamin Kelley, The Secret Art of Boabom, →ISBN, page 186:
      The details of this position are as follows: first, all of your fingers are semibent, but in scale, meaning that the pinky is the most bent, the ring finger a little less, the middle finger even less so, and the index finger more or less even with the middle.
  2. (mathematics) Having a Walsh transform that contains only the values {0, ±2(n+1)/2}, when n is odd.
    • 2015, Can Xiang, Keqin Feng, Chunming Tang, “A Construction of Linear Codes over from Boolean Functions”, in arXiv[1]:
      As applications of this construction, we show several series of linear codes over with two or three weights by using bent, semibent, monomial and quadratic Boolean function ..