semicoercive adjective2 •Somewhat coercive; allowing only minimal free action.It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent. — 1967 •Continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.As a model example we consider a unilateral semicoercive contact problem with nonmonotone friction and provide numerical results for benchmark tests.. — 2015
