English
hemicontinuous
From hemi- + continuous.
Formed from hemi- + continuous
Proto-Indo-European *ten- ‘to stretch, extend’
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Proto-Italic *tenēō ‘to hold’
Latin teneō ‘to hold’
Latin contineō ‘hold together’
Latin continuus ‘continuous, uninterrupted, successive, lasting’
English continuous
Today it means
adj Having the property that if a sequence of points in the domain of a function converges to a point L, then either the sequence of sets that are the images of those points contains a sequence that converges to a point that is in the image of L, or, alternatively, for every element in the image of L, you can find a sub-sequence in the domain whose image contains a convergent sequence to that element.
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Etymograph / hemicontinuous