1(of music) having elements of both classical and popular music.
（音乐）半古典的
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Every musician has a background of classical semi-classical or folk music which enables him to compose new tunes and melodies.
It's hard to pull out one single track for mention since the album is mostly classical or semi-classical music and is meant to be heard in its entirety.
This is a state-sanctioned occasion, and it is a stately spectacle with many whirlers and a semi-classical orchestra staged in a basketball stadium in front of coachloads of Japanese tourists.
His repertoire is considered wide and includes classical as well as semi-classical songs.
They've continually broken new ground, arranging traditional tunes in a semi-classical way, then going on to write their own material for a variety of films.
2Physics (of a theory or method) intermediate between a classical or Newtonian description and one based on quantum mechanics or relativity.
〔物理〕（理论，方法）半经典的
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We demonstrate that the classical and semiclassical models provide a physically reasonable estimate of both the timescale of vibrational relaxation and the pathways of the energy flow.
Rotational contributions were estimated in the semiclassical approximation for the free rotor considering both monomers and dimers as rigid molecules.
A semiclassical analysis of the electronic transition process indicates that a significant fraction of the S 1 population decays to S 0 at each crossing point.
One might have anticipated that the nature of very low-frequency modes might be amenable to semiclassical analysis.
It remains the case that most people are quite skeptical that we will ever make sense of the Euclidean path integral, especially in the semi-classical regime.