bimodal
Americanadjective
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having or providing two modes, methods, systems, etc.
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Statistics. (of a distribution) having or occurring with two modes.
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Transportation. pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving the use of two forms of carrier, as truck and rail.
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In other words, like the bimodal enzymes that had inspired them, they were able to control whether their approach led down one reaction path or the other.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2024
The reduction in symptoms is larger than other studies have found for bimodal stimulation, he says, and it’s the first evidence of such long-term effects.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 7, 2020
To understand this, it is important to recognize that ours is not necessarily a polarization characterized by cavernous ideological gaps or a pronounced bimodal issue position distribution.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2016
A data set with two modes is called bimodal.
From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013
As a result, the terrain peak would move away from its position of coincidence with the time peak on successive dates, producing first, perhaps, a sustention of peak and later a definitely bimodal curve.
From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.
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