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What does half-open mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word half-open? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. partially open; ajar
  2. (mathematics) (referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints
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Examples
Cut when flowers are half-open, and then re-cut stems underwater.
I slept in a hammock in a half-open goat barn, which was nicer than it sounds.
A pleasantly cool breeze was drifting in though the half-open window behind Maui.
A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
Having locked his keys inside his car, Earl tries to reach them by extending his arm through a half-open window.
Its few leaves curve over its pencil-thin stem like a derelict, half-open umbrella.

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