Characterized by or exhibiting properties of a dimer; occurring in or arranged as two similar parts or units.
From 'dimer' + '-lie' (a Scottish/dialectal suffix meaning 'like' or 'characterized by'). This term is archaic or dialectal and rarely appears in modern scientific literature, having been largely replaced by 'dimeric.'
Language evolution shows how scientific terminology gets standardized—'dimerlie' lost out to 'dimeric' because '-ic' became the standard chemistry suffix, showing how scientific communities settle on common terminology to avoid confusion.
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