"half-open" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "half- + open",
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      "expansion": "half-open (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 265",
          "text": "Between the fixed, full-height ends run flexible covers, carried on tubes running in guides, which can be locked in the closed, half-open or fully open positions; [...].",
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        "partially open; ajar"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "partially open",
          "word": "halvåben"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "partially open",
          "word": "semiaperto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "partially open",
          "word": "sēmiapertus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "partially open",
          "word": "sēmihians"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "partially open",
          "word": "entr'ouvèrt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "partially open",
          "word": "półotwarty"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "partially open",
          "word": "semiabierto"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "name": "Mathematics",
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            "Sciences",
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        "(referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints"
      ],
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          "mathematics",
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          "interval",
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        "(mathematics) (referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints"
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          "_dis1": "5 95",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "mathematics: containing only one of its endpoints",
          "word": "halvåben"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "half-open"
}

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        "2": "half",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "half- + open",
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      },
      "expansion": "half-open (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 265",
          "text": "Between the fixed, full-height ends run flexible covers, carried on tubes running in guides, which can be locked in the closed, half-open or fully open positions; [...].",
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        }
      ],
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        "partially open; ajar"
      ],
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        [
          "ajar",
          "ajar"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
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        "(referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints"
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        "(mathematics) (referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints"
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "partially open",
      "word": "halvåben"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "partially open",
      "word": "semiaperto"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "partially open",
      "word": "sēmiapertus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "partially open",
      "word": "sēmihians"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "partially open",
      "word": "entr'ouvèrt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "partially open",
      "word": "półotwarty"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "partially open",
      "word": "semiabierto"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "mathematics: containing only one of its endpoints",
      "word": "halvåben"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half-open"
}