Definition of Semiclassical

1. Adjective. (music) Describing classical music of broad, popular appeal ¹

2. Adjective. (physics) Describing any of various approximations to either relativistic or quantum mechanical physics that retains elements of classical physics ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Semiclassical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiclassical

semicircles
semicircular
semicircular arch
semicircular canal
semicircular ducts
semicircular line of Douglas
semicircularly
semicircumference
semicircumferences
semicirque
semicirques
semicivilized
semiclad
semiclear
semicoherent
semicoke
semicokes
semicolon
semicolonial
semicolonialism
semicolonies
semicolons
semicolony
semicolumn

Literary usage of Semiclassical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1906)
"These schools are either classical, semiclassi- cal, or neoclassical, according asboth Latin and Greek are taught (classical), or but Latin (semiclassical), ..."

2. Bose-Einstein Condensation: An Introduction edited by Keith Burnett, Mark Edwards, Charles W. Clark (1996)
"A semiclassical approximation for the free-free Franck-Condon factor ... The corresponding semiclassical treatment in the field-dressed picture of Fig. ..."

3. The Impact of Chaos on Science and Society by Celso Grebogi, James A. Yorke (1997)
"There is, however, an essential difficulty in applying the semiclassical formula to classically chaotic systems. In chaotic dynamics the number of the ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... error) negative probably is due to a small systematic error in the line-shape analyses which results from the "semiclassical" analytic treatment used. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Paris ; a church of the earliest French Renaissance, begun in 1532, and the best existing specimen of the attempted addition of semiclassical details to a ..."

6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... but of still greater independence and daring in the treatment of the semiclassical details. The heavy timbered roofs and the plastered walls, ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... with its semiclassical portrait-miniatures executed at the beginning of the 6th century. Of a rather later period are the paintings which illustrate the ..."

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