binome

English

Noun

binome (plural binomes)

1. Alternative form of binom
   • 1978, Michael Patrick O'Connor, Hebrew Verse Structure - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 113:

     The personal binome par excellence in Hebrew is the eponym, Jacob-Israel, which is transmuted into the commonest binome for a social organization.

   • 1986, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, →ISBN, page 146:

     The Greek language had a genius for aggregation into compound single words, a strongly agglutinative tendency, so that a name like Viola nigra had been in Greek simply Melanion (melan-ion) . But even Theophrastus used a binome now and then, such as Calamos-euosmos (the sweet flag, now Acorus Calamus) or Syce-Idaia, the 'fig' of Mt Ida (in fact a service-tree, Amelanchier rotundifolia).

   • 2007, Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Georges Métailié, Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China, →ISBN:

     The sixty binomes are inscribed clockwise around the circular ring. According to the text on either side of the diagram, they are meant to facilitate the calculation of the binome that corresponds to the year of an individual's birth.

   • 2008, Monumenta Serica - Volume 56, page 27:

     In such a combination, hunpo may refer to two different concepts, namely, hun and po, or it may indeed function as a binome, referring to one single concept, namely hun, since the Chuci is generally believed to reflect religious beliefs in South China, where, as we have demonstrated, the belief in the single soul hun was popular around the sixth century B.C.E.

2. (archaic) A binomial.
   • 1769, Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. Cunn (Samuel), Theaker Wilder, Universal Arithmetick:

     Hence it follows, that any given Binome may be taken for the nth Power of a binome Root, conceiving the Members of the given Binome to be the Sums of the Terms of the nth Power united alternately, and connected with the Sign of the second Member of the Root;

   • 1849, William Thynne, The Theory of Algebraic Equations: a Chapter of Elementary Algebra:

     Any expression involving impossible binomes -- by their addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, involution, evolution, the index of the power or root being real and rational -- is itself expressible as an impossible binome.

   • 1869, John William Nystrom, Pocket-book of Mechanics and Engineering:

     When a binome is to be multiplied by itself or any other binome, it is set up and performed like the common multiplication by numbers, it is set up and performed like the common multiplication by numbers;

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• biomen