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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bis"
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bis-
- An occasional variant of bi- prefixed to roots beginning with a vowel, as in bisalternate
- (chemistry, obsolete) A variant of di- used to indicate that the component that does not take the prefix occurs twice in the compound: a bisoxide is of the form B2O (cf. dioxide for XO2)
- (mathematics, chemistry) A variant of di-, used for substitutions of two complex rather than simple units.
- Bis (η6-arene) metal complexes have been made for many transition metals by the Al/AlCl3 reduction method.
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- used with adjectives or verbs to denote a generic pejorative connotation
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Further reading[edit]
- “bis-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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