two-sided

adjective

Having two sides, bilateral.

“two-sided inverse — two-sided identity”

Meanings

adjectivetwo-sided (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving two sides, bilateral.
  2. not comparableReversible.

    A reversible coat is two-sided and would allow you to change your appearance.

    4 more examples

    This output control line is used to select which side of a two-sided floppy disk is to be used for reading or writing.

    1984, Steve Ciarcia, Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, volume 4, page 162

    The image of the two-sided cloak will help us explore the connections students have with the mortal realm, and the connections they have with 'inner realms,' as we'll call them for convenience.

    2002, Tamarin Laurel, Initiation at Beltane, →ISBN, page 304

    So I looked at the doll. It is a two-sided doll. I lifted up the doll's dress and it was a two-sided doll, on the other side of the doll was a wolf! Red Riding Hood and the wolf!

    2009, Olivia Lousada, Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us, →ISBN

    With the testimony against him, and his former suspicious character, besides his two-sided coat, things looked rather blue for poor Seymour.

    2016, John Carr, Pioneer Days in California
  3. not comparablealgebraWhose salient properties apply when (the specified object) appears on either side of a given binary operator.

    two-sided inverse — two-sided identity

  4. figurativelynot comparableHaving two aspects or viewpoints.
  5. not comparablehuman sciencesThat is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality as well as its opposite.

Synonyms & antonyms

Similar

adjectivecapable of being reversed or used with either side out

adjectivehaving two sides or parts

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Dutch tweezijdig
  • tweezijdighaving two sides
Finnish kaksipuolinen
  • kaksipuolinenhaving two sides
German zweiseitig
  • zweiseitighaving two sides
Greek αμφίπλευρος
  • αμφίπλευρος (amfíplevros)having two sides
Polish dwustronny
  • dwustronnyhaving two sides
Russian двухсторо́нний, двусторо́нний
  • двухсторо́нний (dvuxstorónnij)having two sides
  • двусторо́нний (dvustorónnij)having two sides
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Chicago

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