semicontinuous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
(of a function) That it is continuous almost everywhere, except at certain points at which it is either upper semi-continuous or lower semi-continuous.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English continuous English semicontinuous From semi- + continuous.
Inflected Forms
semi-continuous (alternative)