semibent

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ bent

Adjective

semibent (not comparable)

1. Bent part way.
   • 1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery: Voume II: The surgical anatomy of the human body, and its application to injuries, and operations:

     The patient is easiest when the fore-arm is semibent.

   • 2006, Asanaro, Joice Buccarey, & Benjamin Kelley, The Secret Art of Boabom, →ISBN, page 186:

     The details of this position are as follows: first, all of your fingers are semibent, but in scale, meaning that the pinky is the most bent, the ring finger a little less, the middle finger even less so, and the index finger more or less even with the middle.

2. (mathematics) Having a Walsh transform that contains only the values {0, ±2(n+1)/2}, when n is odd.
   • 2015, Can Xiang, Keqin Feng, Chunming Tang, “A Construction of Linear Codes over $f_{2^{t}}$ from Boolean Functions”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     As applications of this construction, we show several series of linear codes over $f_{2^{t}}$ with two or three weights by using bent, semibent, monomial and quadratic Boolean function $f$..