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Adjective
[edit ]half-open (not comparable )
- partially open; ajar
- 1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, "The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes", in Modern Railways, page 265:
- Between the fixed, full-height ends run flexible covers, carried on tubes running in guides, which can be locked in the closed, half-open or fully open positions; [...].
- (mathematics ) (referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints
Translations
[edit ]partially open
- Danish: halvåben
- Italian: semiaperto (it)
- Latin: sēmiapertus , sēmipatens , sēmihians
- Norman: entr'ouvèrt
- Polish: półotwarty (pl)
- Spanish: semiabierto
mathematics: containing only one of its endpoints
- Danish: halvåben
- Polish: półotwarty (pl)
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