semicoercive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.
Example Sentences
- "As a model example we consider a unilateral semicoercive contact problem with nonmonotone friction and provide numerical results for benchmark tests.."
- "It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent."
- "But nearly all the increase was attributable to bonds of state units, which were often placed in a semicoercive manner."
- "They have also taken a number of initiatives which are coercive, or semicoercive, measures as far as denying ration books for more than a certain number of children."
- "The question is, then, what causes a regime to move beyond its functional range to become a disrupted or semicoercive regime that ends in repudiation by large or critical segments of the population?"