Definition of "binominal" []

• Consisting of two names (adjective)
• Pertaining to the noun binomen (adjective)
• Pertaining to the nomenclature system for the rank of species in biological taxonomy (adjective)
• A scientific name, at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name. (noun)

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• "The binominal expansion provides a difference equation if the expansion holds."
• "Another advantage of this binominal Latin nomenclature consists in preventing the confusion frequently arising from the use of the same name to designate different animals in different parts of the world, -- as, for instance, the name of Robin, used in America to designate a bird of the Thrush family, entirely different from the Robin of the Old World, -- or of different names for the same animal, as Perch or"
• "Quadratics and the progressions, the binominal formula, covergence and divergence of series, the theory of equations, etc. Corresponds to third term of Math."