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bidirectionality

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  • noun The state or condition of being bidirectional.

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Examples

  • That was in 2003; now, DiPietro tells me, “the most exciting and important new strand in fetal studies is the idea of bidirectionality, the notion that influences on the pregnant woman and fetus go both ways.”

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • This -- your blog -- is the part of the new media, Phil; most appositely, in this case, in terms of its bidirectionality which is, as a matter of fact, the core of my criticism of the NYT and BBC per se as news sources; i.e. their monodirectional, monosource natures, which lead them to tend towards FUAD communicative patterns.

    The Speculist: Here's a Thought 2006

  • Enabling applications for bidirectionality is especially tricky because any sentence or phrase may contain a mix of left-to-right text e.g.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Enabling applications for bidirectionality is especially tricky because any sentence or phrase may contain a mix of left-to-right text e.g.

    Searching right to left 2008

  • Canadian Cynic: The delightful bidirectionality of logic.

    The delightful bidirectionality of logic. CC 2008

  • Enabling applications for bidirectionality is especially tricky because any sentence or phrase may contain a mix of left-to-right text e.g.

    Hello, Pittsburgh 2008

  • This is exactly the problem I have with the Web 2.0 meme, and why its dangerous to slap it on anything that remotely fills the purpose of bidirectionality.

    PostSecret Book Arrived Michael Arrington 2005

  • [Unidirectionality] is a fundamental limitation of the Web today, but it's interesting to see how some developers have tried to approximate bidirectionality in things like TrackBack and Facebook.

    Computerworld News 2009

  • The current study provides evidence that many CpG island associated promoters associated with single genes exhibit inherent bidirectionality, facilitating 'hijack' by transposable elements to create novel antisense 'head-to-head' bidirectional gene pairs in the genome that facilitates escape from host-mediated epigenetic silencing.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • These options were tested for reliability under varying conditions, reaction time, bidirectionality (so that alerts can be confirmed and false warnings minimized), and degree of integration into daily life.

    innovations-report 2008

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