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Etymology tree
English half-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Germanic *ub
Proto-Germanic *upp
Proto-Germanic *upanaz
Proto-West Germanic *opan
Old English open
Middle English open
English open
English half-open

    From half- + open .

    Adjective

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    half-open (not comparable )

    1. 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; [...].
    2. (mathematics ) (referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints

    Translations

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    partially open
    mathematics: containing only one of its endpoints

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