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adjective

Bilateral adj.

Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.

(Biol.) 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.

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Etymology of 'Bilateral'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... I am inclined to believe that its necessity has had a more widespread influence in determining the diversities of animal coloration than any other cause whatever. To it may probably be imputed the singular fact that, whereas bilateral symmetry of coloration is very frequently lost among domesticated animals, it almost universally prevails in a state of nature; for if the two sides of an animal were unlike, and the diversity of coloration among domestic animals occurred in a wild state, easy recognition ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... Inflation has subsided over the past three years. Commercial and transport activities, which make up a large part of GDP, are vulnerable to developments in Nigeria, particularly fuel shortages. The Paris Club and bilateral creditors have eased the external debt situation in recent years. The government, still burdened with money-losing state enterprises and a bloated civil service, has been gradually implementing a ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... term that came into use about 1986; to facilitate bilateral economic cooperation between the two most powerful economic giants; members ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... attention to the physical than to the mental correlates of crime. Thus, Lombroso and his followers subjected thousands of criminals to observation and measurement with regard to such physical traits as size and shape of the skull, bilateral asymmetries, anomalies of the ear, eye, nose, palate, teeth, hands, fingers, hair, dermal sensitivity, etc. The search was for physical "stigmata" characteristic of ...

— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... aimless automatisms, as well as the slow rhythmic flexion and extension of the fingers and hand, movements which are perhaps survivals of arboreal or of even earlier aquatic life, are cooerdinated; and the bilateral and simultaneous rhythmic movements of the heavier muscles are supplemented by the more finely adjusted and specialized activities which as the end of the growth period is approached are determined less by heredity and more by environment. In a sense, a child or a man is the sum total ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall