semiempirically
English
editEtymology
editFrom semi- + empirically.
Adverb
editsemiempirically (not comparable)
- Somewhat empirically
- 2009 August 28, Leo Gross et al., “The Chemical Structure of a Molecule Resolved by Atomic Force Microscopy”, in Science[1], volume 325, number 5944, , pages 1110–1114:
- Van der Waals (vdW) forces were added semiempirically to the dispersion energy as a contribution proportional to R –6 (where R is the atomic distance) ( 28 ).