Definition of "bis" []

• Music Again; twice. Used as a direction to repeat a passage. (adverb)
• Used to request an additional performance. (interjection)

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• "V. 42bis (the "bis" is French for "enhanced") is a data compression addition to the V. 42 feature."
• "Berg explains that the compound used in most sealants today is called bis-GMA, a product that derives from both BPA and BPA-GMA but has different properties."
• "For the twelve months of the sun contain three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days, and so because the quarter becomes a whole, in four years an extra day is completed, which is called bis-sextile."