from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Having or exhibiting two contrasting modes or forms.
adjective Having two distinct statistical modes.
adjective Designed for operation on either railroads or highways. Used of vehicles.
from The Century Dictionary.
Having two modes. In a table of frequencies the mode is the most frequent measure. If the curve of frequencies has two maxima it is called bimodal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective (Statistics) having or occurring with two modes{9}; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Having two modes or forms
adjective mathematics, of a distribution Having two modes (local maxima)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes
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Composition: bi- + modal.
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(The pertinent experiments were done with monkeys using rakes to manipulate distal objects; specific "bimodal" neurons that usually fire when the monkey's fingertips are touched eventually began to fire when the tip of the rake is touched, thus suggesting that the brain had "incorporated" the rake into its somatosensory "body schema.")
It’s easy to guess that low-rent areas might give you the heebie-jeebies, but there might be some kind of bimodal distribution… I don’t know about you, but super-wealthy areas give me the creeps.
If it is true, then we should observe a bimodal distribution of outcomes for reconstruction: many clear successes, many clear failures, and relatively few in-between examples.
What the U.S. statistical averages in these areas both show and disguise is the bimodal distribution of the measured characteristics in the U.S. population.
What the U.S. statistical averages in these areas both show and disguise is the bimodal distribution of the measured characteristics in the U.S. population.
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