Speakur

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half-open interval

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables
half-open in-ter-val
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An interval in the real line which contains one of its endpoints but not the other one: i.e., it either contains its supremum or its infimum but not both.

Inflected Forms

half-open intervals (plural)

Phrases

open interval closed interval

Frequently Paired Words

open interval closed interval

Questions

What does half-open interval mean?
An interval in the real line which contains one of its endpoints but not the other one: i.e., it either contains its supremum or its infimum but not both.

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