semigrand

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semigrand (not comparable)

(physics) Pertaining to a distribution of species that holds the number of particles, pressure, and temperature fixed but allows mole fractions of species within a phase to fluctuate.
- 2015, Wojciech T. Góźdź, Alina Ciach, “Critical point calculation for binary mixtures of symmetric non-additive hard disks”, in arXiv‎:
  A cluster algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations in a semigrand ensemble was used.
(music) Of a size (of piano) intermediate between grand and baby grand.
- 1910, The Oriental Economic Review - Volume 1, page 394:
  Both companies make the upright, grand, semigrand, and baby-grand pianos, and in such styles as colonial, empire, antique, etc.
- 2015, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, →ISBN:
  An upright semigrand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity.

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