semimean
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semimean (not comparable)
- Somewhat or partially mean. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (geometry) Pertaining to half the length of the middle axis on an ellipse (halfway between the major and minor axes).
- 1970, Akademii͡a︡ nauk SSSR, Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R:
- The planes in which lie the semimajor and semimean axes of both the pebbles and quartz-feldspar aggregates coincide with those of the crystalline schistosity (Sj, which follows the bedding (S0).
Antonyms
[edit]- (partially mean) seminice
Noun
[edit]semimean (plural semimeans)
- (statistics) The result obtained by taking either the largest or smallest half of the values and calculating the mean.
- 1983, The Engineering Economist - Volume 29, page 12:
- Moreover, semimeans unify many of the more common measures.
- 2010, Gerd Infanger, Stochastic Programming:
- The third captures the mean squared wealth and the lower semimean squared wealth.