Biplicity

Quick meaning: Biplicity is a noun meaning The state of being twice folded; reduplication.

Meaning

The state of being twice folded; reduplication.

More Meanings

1. Doubleness, the state of being double.

Example Sentences

He who reads them will see that Mr. Darwin by no means minces matters with Lyell[…] There may be a certain biplicity of kindness and courtesy in Mr. Darwin ; but there is no duplicity of his essential manhood and truth.

[…]that certain characteristic properties of the bacterial flagellum can be imitated in a wire coil model. These properties are: (1) the arc which is visible frequently at the end of a flagellum (Figs. 10 and 11), and (2) the phenomenon of “biplicity,” that is, the sudden appearance of one-half the usual pitch (Fig. 12).

The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life.

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Related dictionary entries include reduplication, duplicature, duplication, twofoldness, bifold, twofoldedness.

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