semiprotection
English edit
Etymology edit
semi- + protection
Noun edit
semiprotection (uncountable)
- partial protection
- 2003, Shelley McKellar, Surgical limits: the life of Gordon Murray, page 17:
- Behind the lines, the gunners had the semiprotection of makeshift shelters - sheets of corrugated galvanized iron, bolted together and covered with layers of sandbags, sod, and netting.
- 2003, Sharon Dunn, Romance Rustlers and Thunderbird Thieves, page 173:
- Rain drizzled steadily as we entered the semiprotection of a grove of trees. At least the wind wasn't hitting us so hard. Mom's umbrella proved to be close to useless, because it kept collapsing.
- 2009, Pina M. Fratamico, James L. Smith, Kim A. Brogden, Sequelae and long-term consequences of infectious diseases, page 264:
- A primigravida pregnant women who has semi-immunity to parasites adherent to endothelium in other organs lacks this semiprotection to the parasites capable of binding to the placenta […]