two-sided, a.
(ˈtuːˈsaɪdɪd: stress var.)
Having two sides, bilateral; fig. having two parts or aspects. Hence two-ˈsidedness.
| 1863 Tyndall Heat xv. §755 (1870) 522 A kind of two-sidedness. 1869 ― Notes Lect. Light iii. (1873) 116 The two-sidedness of that [polarized] light, in contrast to the all-sidedness of ordinary light. 1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 409 To the second type belong..flat horizontal leaves... The chlorophyll-parenchyma..is severed into two different layers, each of which corresponds to one surface of the leaf. It may accordingly be termed the two-sided, the bifacial type. 1896 Mrs. Caffyn Quaker Grandmother 192 It's..in this case a two-sided custom. |