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bis- prefix

— 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.

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