Meaning of both-handedness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ambidexterity.
   uncountable
2. The property of involving two sides, approaches, or orientations.
   uncountable

Examples

“It has been claimed by some modern scientists that ambidexterity, or both-handedness, is the natural condition of the race, and that the use of one hand or the other by preference is an acquired habit belonging to the period of development in childhood.”

“Until recently, and even now, both-handedness (ambidextrousness) has been mentioned as a cause of reading difficulties rather than seen as an indicator of immaturity.”

“The binary nature of the study in effect erases mixed or both-handedness.”

“Serving God with one hand and the devil with the other is a style of both-handedness from which we may well pray to be saved.”

“The opposite-handednesses of the monolayer domains composed of D- and L-enantiomers, presence of both-handedness in racemic domains, ...”

“They exhibit accordingly that property of amphi-cheirality or both-handedness which was noted in the laterales nerves of the lamprey, betokening a possible affinity with the circular neural ring of the jelly-fish.”

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