semiscientific
English
editEtymology
editFrom semi- + scientific.
Adjective
editsemiscientific (not comparable)
- Partially scientific; having or using certain aspects of science.
- 2009 June 4, Howard Beck, “Numbers Crunched for Discipline Rules”, in New York Times[1]:
- League officials set the thresholds for suspension — on the seventh technical foul or the fourth flagrant-foul point — using a semiscientific approach.