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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a work that in style or form falls between the classical and popular genres.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a classical composition that enjoys popular appeal because of modern elements.
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- adjective music Describing
classical music of broad, popular appeal - adjective physics Describing any of various
approximations to eitherrelativistic orquantum mechanical physics that retains elements ofclassical physics
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With musical settings that evoke Rachmaninoff by way of Debussy and sometimes inflected with J. S. Bach, she often moved beyond the realm of jazz into a semiclassical sphere, although the label semiclassical really doesn't suffice, because the music is improvised.
NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN HOLDEN 2011
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This is what physicists call a semiclassical argument—the physics used is classical, with a few modern ideas added on.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009
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You can make it predict the same effects as the semiclassical theory, i.e. entropy goes as area et cetera.
Can a Really, Really Fast Spacecraft Turn Into A Black Hole? | Universe Today 2010
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Examples of semiclassical models include the “Heisenberg microscope” (page 38) and the Bohr model of hydrogen (page 49).
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009
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The idea behind the semiclassical treatment of uncertainty is familiar to any dog.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009
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The most common semiclassical explanations of decoherence leave a lot to be desired, though, as they are inaccurate, and often somewhat circular.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009
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* He refined this later, but he was never able to come up with a convincing semiclassical counterargument, in the way that he had in all his other debates with Einstein.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009
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I was able to explain the observations quantitatively with a semiclassical model that reli ed on the density matrix formalism to account for quantum interference effects in coupled three-level systems.
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Rather, we belong in some particular semiclassical history, separated out from other histories by the process of decoherence.
Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007
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(The various flavors of LQG do not qualify, in my view, because no one has shown that any of them has the required semiclassical limit, and my intuition [which could be completely wrong] is that none of them do.)
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