semiclassical
/sˌɛmiklˈæsɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or being a theory that describes a physical system by dividing it into two parts, one described by classical physics and the other by either relativistic or quantum mechanical physics.
Example Sentences
- "The semiclassical approach to the relativistic theory has been recently worked out by several authors and the #92;hbar² corrections to the earlier established TF relativistic theory have been derived¹⁷⁻¹⁹."
- "2020, Bei-Lok B. Hu, Enric Verdaguer, Semiclassical and Stochastic Gravity, Cambridge University Press, page 337, Whereas semiclassical gravity is based on the semiclassical Einstein equation with sources given by the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of quantum fields, stochastic semiclassical gravity is based on the Einstein—Langevin equation, which has in addition sources due to the noise kernel."
- "2024, Chaoyuan Zhu, Semiclassical Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics, Springer, page 109, Of course, the main problem with such semiclassical treatment is to find suitable coordinate[s] in which [a] multidimensional scattering or reaction Schrödinger equation has to be expanded into the certain one-dimensional many-state coupled Schrödinger equations like Equation 4.219."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin classicuslbor. French classiquebor. English classic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English classical English semiclassical From semi- + classical.
Inflected Forms
more semiclassical (comparative)
most semiclassical (superlative)