semiclassical
Americanadjective
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of or relating to music by classical composers that is familiar or appealing to the general public.
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of or relating to music intermediate in style between classical and popular music.
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Instead, physicists often turn to what's known as semiclassical physics -- a middle-ground approach that keeps just enough quantum behavior to stay accurate, while discarding details that have little effect on the outcome.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
"Plenty of groups have tried to do this before us. It's known that certain complicated quantum systems could be solved efficiently with a semiclassical approach," Marino says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
By treating popular standards as secular art songs dressed up in elegant semiclassical and pop-jazz trappings by his most brilliant arranger, Nelson Riddle, Sinatra began blurring the distinctions.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2015
Bach to Klezmer, including the premiers of Yankelev’s arrangement of “My Yiddishe Mama” and baritone Shouvik Mondle’s rendition of traditional Hindu semiclassical music.
From Washington Post
The gymnasium was divided into three types: the classical, the semiclassical, and the scientific.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.
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