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bilateral
| bilateral contract
| bilateral descent
| bilateral symmetry
| bilateralism
| bilaterality
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bilateral has 3 senses
- bilateral(s = adj.all) bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral - having identical parts on each side of an axis; Array Derived form noun bilaterality1
- bilateral(s = adj.all) Array - affecting or undertaken by two parties; "a bilateral agreement between the United States and Japan"
- bilateral(s = adj.all) two-sided - having two sides or parts; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
bilateral, a. [Pref. bi- + lateral: cf. F. bilatéral.].
- Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties. [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bilateral, adj.
1 of, on, or with two sides.
2 affecting or between two parties, countries, etc. (bilateral negotiations).
1 of, on, or with two sides.
2 affecting or between two parties, countries, etc. (bilateral negotiations).
Idiom
bilateral symmetry symmetry about a plane.
Derivative
bilaterally adv.
THESAURUS
bilateral
Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bifurcated, binary, binate, biparous, bipartisan, bipartite, bivalent, conduplicate, dichotomous, dihedral, disomatous, double, double-faced, duadic, dual, dualistic, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, dyadic, flanked, geminate, geminated, handed, identical, lateral, many-sided, matched, multilateral, one-sided, polyhedral, quadrilateral, second, secondary, sided, tetrahedral, three-sided, trihedral, trilateral, triquetrous, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, unilateralROGET THESAURUS
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Duplication
N duplication, doubling, gemination, ingemination, reduplication, iteration, renewal, double, doubled, bicipital, bicephalous, bidental, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular, bifold, biform, bilateral, bifarious, bifacial, twofold, two-sided, disomatous, duplex, double-faced, double-headed, twin, duplicate, ingeminate, second, twice, once more, over again, as much again, twofold, secondly, in the second place, again.Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
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