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binom

binom noun: a compound word.

Noun

binom (plural binoms)

  1. A compound word.
    • Where you would expect to hear AN na N you may instead find, especially in written Japanese, AN no N. The latter, somewhat stiffer, version appears to enjoy particular favor when the AN is a binom of Chinese origin modifying another Chinese binom and the two words are either optionally combinable...1975, Samuel Elmo Martin, A Reference Grammar of Japanese; republished Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2004, →ISBN, page 766
    • It a meaning is expressed in a particular language like English with the help of a binom, newspaper, and in another particular language like German by a mononom Zeitung, the heteronomic morphology is usually more voluminous (9 phonograms against 7).2013, P. Kümmel, Formalization of Natural Languages, →ISBN

Forms of binom

pluralbinoms

Origin of binom

From bi- + -nom.

Questions about binom

What does binom mean?
Binom means a compound word.
What part of speech is binom?
Binom is a noun.
What is the plural of binom?
The plural of binom is binoms.

Words near binom in the dictionary

  1. Binogtungan
  2. binoid
  3. binoids
  4. Binokid
  5. binology
  6. binom
  7. binome
  8. binomen
  9. binomenclature
  10. binomes
  11. binomial

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