ship images. The Makin Island Raid (occurred on 17 - 18 August 1942) was an attack by the United States Marine Corps on Japanese military forces on Makin Island (now known as Butaritari Island) in the Pacific Ocean.
Biannual is derived from the prefix bi-, which means two, twice, double, doubly, as it comes from the Latin bi-, meaning twice, double, and annual comes from the Old French twelfth century word, annuel, which derives from the Latin annus, year.
See biannual defined for kids. Many people are puzzled about bimonthly and biweekly, which are often ambiguous because they are formed from two different senses of bi-: âoccurring every twoâ and âoccurring two times.â This ambiguity has been in existence for nearly a century and a half and cannot be eliminated by the dictionary.