quasi

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Pronunciation

/ˈkweɪzaɪ/(UK)

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/ˈkweɪzaɪ/(UK) · /ˈkweɪsaɪ/(UK) · /ˈkwɑːzi/(UK) · /ˈkwɑːˌzaɪ/(US) · /ˈkwɑːzi/(US) · /ˈkwɑːsi/(US) · /ˈkweɪˌzaɪ/(US) · /ˈkweɪˌsaɪ/(US)

Definition of quasi

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.

“So in summation gentlemen. What you have before you is a troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi tank that has less armor than a snowblower, god has enough ammo to take out half of D.C.”
“The presiding officer of the assembly does not appoint a chairman of the quasi committee, but remains in the chair himself throughout its proceedings.”
“In a quasi experiment, the likelihood of a viewer of short video abandoning earlier than a similar viewer of a long video exceeded the likelihood that the opposite happens by 11.5%.”

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Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).

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