Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

semigrand

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sem-i-grand
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a piano: having a size intermediate between grand and baby grand.

adj

Pertaining to a distribution of species that holds the number of particles, pressure, and temperature fixed but allows mole fractions of species within a phase to fluctuate.

Example Sentences

"An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity."
"Both companies make the upright, grand, semigrand, and baby-grand pianos, and in such styles as colonial, empire, antique, etc."
"A cluster algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations in a semigrand ensemble was used."

Etymology

From semi- + grand.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: semi

Questions

What does semigrand mean?: Of a piano: having a size intermediate between grand and baby grand.
Where does semigrand come from?: From semi- + grand.

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