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  • adjective having two humps

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Examples

  • (It also means that students thinking about a law career and hoping for the giant salaries offered by the biggest firms should really understand what that double-humped curve means to their prospects.)

    Discourse.net: More About Starting Salaries 2008

  • And given the law firm salary structure is now a notoriously double-humped curve (see Starting Salaries For Law Students are BiModal — If Not Bipolar for more details), this is a fairly severe truth-in-advertising problem.

    Discourse.net: More About Starting Salaries 2008

  • This rush of electricity sweeps in a spiral around the entire heart, from the double-humped top to the pointy little bottom, making a complete circuit top to bottom -- bottom to top.

    T.S. Wiley: Can Staying Up Late Cause Heart Disease? 2010

  • The traders mounted on double-humped Bacteria Camels depict the early trade scenes between Yarkhand and Ladakh.

    The Land of Colors 2007

  • The traders mounted on double-humped Bacteria Camels depict the early trade scenes between Yarkhand and Ladakh.

    The Land of Colors 2007

  • Kim marked down a gaily ornamented ruth or family bullock-cart, with a broidered canopy of two domes, like a double-humped camel, which had just been drawn into the par.

    Kim 2003

  • Casca had followed a caravan of double-humped camels, braying and spitting under the loads they carried swinging on their backs.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • Kim marked down a gaily ornamented ruth or family bullock-cart, with a broidered canopy of two domes, like a double-humped camel, which had just been drawn into the par.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Upon getting higher we perceived to the south, beyond the four-terraced plateau, another plateau with vertical walls, and to the south-west a high double-humped dome -- resembling Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • In the great undulating valley we left behind -- as we now altered our course slightly to the north-west -- was prominent a double-humped hill which rose higher than any other except in the north-west portion of the landscape.

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

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