Meaning of biplicity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being twice folded; reduplication.
   uncountable
2. Doubleness, the state of being double.
   uncountable

Examples

“[…]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.”

“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.”

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