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Definition: Bidirectional |
BidirectionalAdjective1. Reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Electrical Engineering | Qualifies circuits which are used for carrying traffic in either direction as required. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Having equal effectiveness in two directions which are separated by 180 degrees in azimuth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bidirectional."
| Antonym: unidirectional (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bidirectional |
| Specialty definitions using "bidirectional": backing store, bidirectional bubble sort, bidirectional chaining, bidirectional printing, Bidirectional Reflectance, bidirectional search, bidirectional transducer ♦ doubly linked list ♦ S Phase, STREAMS ♦ TF 560, Tubulina ♦ V.32. (references) |
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| "Bidirectional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bidirectional" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bidirectional": bidirectional chaining ♦ bidirectional lines ♦ bidirectional operation ♦ bidirectional printing ♦ bidirectional search. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bidirectional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 双向 (two-way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bidirektional, tovejs (both way, both-way, two way, two-way), dobbeltvirkende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bidirectioneel (bi-directional, both way, both-way, two way, two-way), in twee richtingen (bilateral, both way, both-way, two way, two-way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaksisuuntainen (bi-directional, both way, both-way, duplex, full duplex, two way, two-way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bidirectionnel (bi-directional), bidirectif, mixte, dans les deux sens, double sens, deux sens de marche, deux directions. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hin und zurück, hin und her (argy-bargy, back and forth, reciprocation, seesaw, there and back, to and fro, to and from, toggled, vice versa, wrangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμφικατευθυντικό (both way, both-way, two way, two-way), αμφίδρομος (both way, both-way, duplex, full duplex, two way, two-way), δικατευθυντικός (bi-directional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bidirezionale (bi-directional, both way, both-way, duplex, two way, two-way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 양지향성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idirectionalbay bidireccional (bi-directional, both way, both-way, two way, two-way). (various references) двунаправленный (bi-directional, bi-directorial, bothway). (various references) bidireccional (bi-directional, both way, both-way, duplex, two way, two-way). (various references) bidirektionell sökning (bidirectional chaining, bidirectional search, rule value approach, sideways chaining), dubbelriktat symmetrisk (symmetric bidirectional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "bidirectional": bidirectionally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: directional. | |
-3 letters: indictable, liberation. | |
-4 letters: albinotic, bacteroid, balconied, bandolier, cabriolet, ciliation, clarioned, cobaltine, dictional, dietician, direction, doctrinal, doleritic, editorial, identical, idiotical, indicator, initialed, interlaid, libration, lidocaine, redaction, reliction, triclinia. | |
-5 letters: acridine, acrolein, actinide, actinoid, albicore, alcidine, anoretic, anticold, arointed, articled, bacterin, banderol, baritone, bidental, bilander, bilinear, biocidal, bioclean, biotical, boracite, braciole, braconid, brocatel, cabriole. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: bidirectionally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 64 69 72 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i d i r e c t i o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0064 0069 0072 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36757075847169867581806778 |
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