Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or exhibiting two contrasting modes or forms: "American supermarket shopping shows bimodal behavior—careful, nutritious choices mixed with salty, high-fat snack foods” ( Sheryl Julian).
- adj. Having two distinct statistical modes.
- adj. Designed for operation on either railroads or highways. Used of vehicles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Statistics) having or occurring with two modes{9}; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes
Etymologies
- Composition: bi- + modal. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(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.")”
“In stats, what we have in Oregon is known as a "bimodal" distribution.”
“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.”
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“Go deeper into your walk and experience a bimodal tidal movement, flowing first in one direction and then another.”
“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.”
Hours Worked In the U.S. vs. Europe, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“If the distribution is, in fact, bimodal, that means that the median and mode are drifting apart.”
Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“It's interesting that the 2003 column in the "Income Distribution Percent of Households" table appears bimodal.”
Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“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.”
Economics of Reconstruction, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The effect of this inhibition is considered a bimodal phenomenon.”
“Quah (1993, 1996) found that the world is moving towards a bimodal income distribution.”
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