Meaning of semicoercive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.
   not-comparable
2. Somewhat coercive; allowing only minimal free action.
   not-comparable

Examples

“As a model example we consider a unilateral semicoercive contact problem with nonmonotone friction and provide numerical results for benchmark tests..”

“It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent.”

“But nearly all the increase was attributable to bonds of state units, which were often placed in a semicoercive manner.”

“They have also taken a number of initiatives which are coercive, or semicoercive, measures as far as denying ration books for more than a certain number of children.”

“The question is, then, what causes a regime to move beyond its functional range to become a disrupted or semicoercive regime that ends in repudiation by large or critical segments of the population?”

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