semiabiertas

Semiabiertas is the feminine plural form of the Spanish term semiabierta, used to describe objects or concepts that are not completely open. In Spanish-language technical writing, the meaning depends on the discipline, but the common thread is an intermediate state between fully open and fully closed.

In linguistics, semiabiertas refers to a vowel height category between close (high) and open (low). A semiabierta vowel is produced with the tongue positioned between that of a close vowel and an open vowel, producing an intermediate acoustic quality. This category appears in some phonological analyses and language inventories to capture fine-grained distinctions among vowel heights, with its exact realization varying by language.

In mathematics, particularly topology and real analysis, semiabiertas describes a type of set that lies between open and closed. A subset A of a topological space is called semi-open if it is contained in the closure of its interior (A ⊆ cl(int(A))). Semiabiertas sets generalize the idea of half-open intervals, such as [a,b) in the real line with the standard topology, which is semi-open but neither open nor closed.

The term is thus context-dependent. Outside of formal technical usage, semiabiertas can appear in ordinary Spanish to describe objects or concepts that are not entirely open, depending on the field and the specific example being discussed.