binome

Example Sentences

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