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  • adjective Having, or employing, three modes

Etymologies

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tri- +‎ modal

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Examples

  • Where you see the mode referred to most often is when researchers report that they have "a bimodal distribution" (or even trimodal).

    Gerald Bracey: How Mean is the Median? 2008

  • The CrystalEye data does not reflect that really, and only a trimodal histograms shows up.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Egon Willighagen 2007

  • The CrystalEye data does not reflect that really, and only a trimodal histograms shows up.

    Evidence of Aromaticity Egon Willighagen 2007

  • Commercial fisheries were geared to times of runs that had regular patterns year after year; for example, Chinook salmon entering the Columbia River showed trimodal peaks in abundance known as spring, summer, and fall runs.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Commercial fisheries were geared to times of runs that had regular patterns year after year; for example, Chinook salmon entering the Columbia River showed trimodal peaks in abundance known as spring, summer, and fall runs.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Commercial fisheries were geared to times of runs that had regular patterns year after year; for example, Chinook salmon entering the Columbia River showed trimodal peaks in abundance known as spring, summer, and fall runs.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Commercial fisheries were geared to times of runs that had regular patterns year after year; for example, Chinook salmon entering the Columbia River showed trimodal peaks in abundance known as spring, summer, and fall runs.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • For the scenarios in the literature, the distribution of emissions by 2100 is very asymmetrical and portrays a structure resembling a trimodal frequency distribution: those with emissions of more than 30 gigatonnes of carbon (20 scenarios), those with emissions of 12-30 gigatonnes of carbon (88 scenarios), and those with emissions of less than 12 gigatonnes of carbon (82 scenarios).

    Chapter 10 2000

  • A trimodal treatment strategy combining chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and a protein kinase inhibi ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS tracysmith159 2010

  • Diederich A, Colonius H (2004) Bimodal and trimodal multisensory enhancement: effects of stimulus onset and intensity on reaction time.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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