semitonic (semitonik)

[ semi-transparency (semi-trans-paren-si), n. Imperfect transparency; partial opaquene . semi-transparent (semi-trans-parent), a. Half-transparent or imperfectly transparent.Semi-transparent china, a name given to a fine pottery made at Stoke-upon-Trent in the early years of the factory which afterward produced the famous Spode porcelain. semi-tropical (sem-i-trop'i-kal), a. Belonging in part to the tropics and in part to more temperate regions; characteristic of regions bordering on the tropics; subtropical: as, semi tropical vegetation; a semi - tropical climate. semi tubular (sem-i-tūbū-lär), a. Like the half of a tube divided longitudinally; elongate, with parallel margins, one surface being strongly convex and the other strongly concave. semitychonic (semi-tī-kon'ik), a. Approximating to the astronomical system of Tycho Brahe. The semitychonic system supposes the earth to revolve on its axis daily, but the sun to revolve around the earth, and the other primary planets to revolve around the sun. semi-uncial (sem-i-un's ial), a. and n. I. a. In paleography, intermediate between uncial and minuscule: noting a method of writing Latin and Greek characters found in the sixth or seventh and succeeding centuries. Where contracting is the main busine , it is not well to write, as the fashion now is, uncial or semi uncial letters, to look like pig's ribs. Roger North , Lord Guilford, i. 20. ( Davies .) Scholia, in two or more fine semi uncial hands, are frequent through the entire book. Cla ical Rev., III. 18. semi-uncial II. n. One of the characters exhibiting the transition from uncial to minuscule writing. It [Irish script] is usually called the Irish uncial or semi uncial, but its connection with the normal uncial script has never been explained. Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, v. ii. 173. semivitreous (sem-i-vit'rē-us), a. Partially vitreous le of a vitreous structure: a term used in describing the struc ture of various minerals, constituents of rocks, especially of volcanic rocks. See vitreous. Finely vesicular rhyolitic rock with compact semivitre ous green-grey base. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., XLVI. 74. semi-vitrification (sem-i-vitri-fi-kā'shon), n . 1. The proce of partly vitrifying anything, or the state of being partly vitrified.-2. A substance or ma in the state of being semi vitrified, or partially converted into gla .