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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The chemists set themselves the ambitious goal of finding a general organic synthesis method for doing either the oxygenation or dehydrogenation reaction, as these versatile "bimodal" enzymes do in living cells.
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
The stock, then, is essentially an attempt to boil a complex bimodal probability distribution down to a single number.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2018
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 bimodal size-distribution of young-of-the-year was noted also in 1958 and 1959; but, no segregation of the two sizes occurred on riffles in summer.
From Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas by Deacon, James Everett
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