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
De Waal cites the work of anthropologist Robert Martin, who said the difference between genders can be accounted for by bimodal differences — statistical, though with a lot of exceptions.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023
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
Errors of sampling may similarly account for some, though not all, of the curves of the bimodal type shown in Figure 29C.
From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.
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