semicoercive

semi- +‎ coercive

semicoercive (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernal.
   • 2015, Nina Ovcharova, Joachim Gwinner, “Semicoercive Variational Inequalities - From Existence to Numerical Solution of Nonmonotone Contact Problems”, in arXiv‎:

     As a model example we consider a unilateral semicoercive contact problem with nonmonotone friction and provide numerical results for benchmark tests..

2. Somewhat coercive; allowing only minimal free action.
   • 1967, Charles O. Lerche, Foreign Policy of the American People, page 17:

     It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent.

   • 1975, Vinod Dubey, Yugoslavia, Development with Decentralization, →ISBN:

     But nearly all the increase was attributable to bonds of state units, which were often placed in a semicoercive manner.

   • 1976, Douglas N. Ross, The Challenge of overpopulation and food shortages:

     They have also taken a number of initiatives which are coercive, or semicoercive, measures as far as denying ration books for more than a certain number of children.

   • 1978, Juan José Linz, The breakdown of democratic regimes:

     The question is, then, what causes a regime to move beyond its functional range to become a disrupted or semicoercive regime that ends in repudiation by large or critical segments of the population?