Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
bis- en · X
Meanings
(morpheme) An occasional variant of bi- prefixed to roots beginning with a vowel, as in bisalternate
(morpheme, 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)
(morpheme) 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.