Definition of "semicontinuous" []

• (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. (adjective)

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• "Writing in his classic study "The Republic of Fear," he recalled, "Between 1958 and 1968 there were more than 10 coups and attempted coups two armed rebellions and a semicontinuous civil war against the Kurds.""
• "Intermediate-scale. semicontinuous solid phase fermentation process for production of fuel ethanol from sweet sorghum."
• "SIDO has to date established 10 semicontinuous kilns, on the Indian Khadi and Village Industries Commission"