bielemental
English
editEtymology
editFrom bi- (“two”) + elemental.
Adjective
editbielemental (not comparable)
- Having two different elements (in various senses).
- Synonym: dielemental
- 1995, Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 238:
- The flux level predicted by these bielemental mixtures cannot be expected to agree with the observed spectra, so that we had to artificially reduce the theoretical EUVE spectrum with respect to the observed one.
- 2020, George L. Campbell, Gareth King, Compendium of the World's Languages, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
- […] this last example – with a single character corresponding to an idea expressed by a polysyllabic (and bi-elemental) Japanese word – shows a more 'ideographic' use of characters in Japanese than is generally the case with modern Chinese.