semipositive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a dual that is nonnegative.
adj
Having all elements nonnegative where at least one is positive.
adj
A type of compression mold for plastics that allows for excess powder and flash, as in an open flash mold, but which allows for lower melt viscosities as in a fully positive mold.
Example Sentences
- "Jason seemed to have two completely different ways of belonging and gaining significance — a negative method with his mother and a semipositive method with his father."
- "Chief Seathl looked to the future in a semipositive way, saying, "We aren't going to forget who we are. . .""
- "Basques in Sydney, Melbourne, and North Queensland tend to feel that they have been socially accepted with a semipositive status because of their excellent work reputations with non-Basque employers."
- "The purpose of this short note is to give a remark on the decomposition theorem for direct images of canonical sheaves tensorized with Nakano semipositive vector bundles."
- "For such products, a semipositive mold is designed (Fig. 1.1.14), with the flash at a right angle to the direction of pressure."
- "The semipositive, vertical-flash type mold, shown in Fig. 13-2, requires double fitting of force to cavity and is costly."