Crossword clues for bimodal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bimodal \bimodal\ adj. (Statistics) having or occurring with two modes[9]; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution. unimodal
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having two modes or forms 2 (context mathematics of a distribution English) Having two modes (local maximum)
WordNet
adj. of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes [ant: unimodal]
Usage examples of "bimodal".
If that trend held for long, Sax thought, it would lead to a kind of physicalization of class-a late emergence or retroactive unveiling of Marx's bleak vision-only more extreme than Marx, because now class distinctions would be exhibited as an actual physiological difference caused by a bimodal distribution, something almost akin to speciation.
And they were different, profoundly different, sharing interests and enthusiasms perfectly incommunicable to any other generation, as if genetic drift or disruptive selection had produced a bimodal distribution, so that members of the old Homo sapiens were now coinhabiting the planet with a new Homo ares, creatures tall and slender and graceful and utterly at home, chattering to each other in a profound self-absorption as they did the work that would make Hellas Basin into a sea.
If that trend held for long, Sax thought, it would lead to a kind of physicalization of class—a late emergence or retroactive unveiling of Marx’s bleak vision—only more extreme than Marx, because now class distinctions would be exhibited as an actual physiological difference caused by a bimodal distribution, something almost akin to speciation.