How to Use bidirectional in a Sentence

bidirectional

adjective
  • If the brain is a bidirectional transducer, that is not a strange idea at all.
    — Robert Epstein, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2021
  • For those that record interviews in small studios, a bidirectional mic is the right choice.
    — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, the process of building the characters was always bidirectional.
    — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • The chat transfers were not bidirectional, and that’s not something that surprised many people.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Oct. 2021
  • This eliminates the need for complex mechanisms and valves to deal with the bidirectional air flow.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 26 July 2024
  • In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The MagTech is bidirectional, so it can be plugged no matter which way your cable is coming from.
    — Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2020
  • This forces the liquid through a bidirectional turbine that drives a generator.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The 3 is also set up for bidirectional charging, where the vehicle can return power to the grid.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This phone holder has a phone clip, a steel body and a bidirectional adjustable base suitable for various scenarios.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The vehicle has plenty of legroom for occupants thanks to its bidirectional design.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Building such co-adaptive bidirectional BCIs is the goal of our center.
    — Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
  • In addition to a roof full of solar cells to help charge the cars inside, the facility is chock-full of bidirectional chargers.
    — Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
  • As mediums go, the bidirectional grain is perfect for expressing the duality of man.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The automaker's at-home bidirectional charging station allows the vehicle to be used to power a home.
    — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2020
  • There's also a bidirectional relationship between stress and your skin.
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The incident could have been catastrophic if the cables hadn’t happened to be bidirectional.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The bidirectional charger allows the battery to run your entire home for up to seven days, as well as give a boost to other EVs in need.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Takahashi's bidirectional system is far more power hungry.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Moskito, which packs six bidirectional motors, clearly is not a smartwatch in the sense of Apple or Pebble.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Other notable features include a day-date window at three o’clock and a bidirectional inner bezel that can be adjusted via the crown pusher at four o’clock.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
  • The Revo is the first bidirectional belay device with a true auto-locking mechanism.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 2 July 2018
  • But our travels repeatedly made clear that the relationship must be bidirectional.
    — Srinidhi Polkampally, STAT, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The bidirectional mode can swing either way, depending upon the nature of the forgive-and-forget circumstances.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Five years in the making, the new movement also has bidirectional winding and a balance wheel fit with inertia blocks to avoid unnecessary friction.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The movement has bidirectional self-winding via a perpetual rotor and a power reserve of 72 hours.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2022
  • At best, that friction breeds not only generational ambiguity, but a sort of bidirectional bliss.
    — Samuel Hyland, Pitchfork, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The bidirectional option would run north and south from the transportation center on Central, before cutting across Maple to Brand.
    — Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, 6 Aug. 2019
  • This type of respiration provides the animal with more oxygen than does the bidirectional respiratory system that mammals have, in which air flows both in and out of the lungs.
    — Matthew A. Brown, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The movement with a GMT function is equipped with bidirectional self-winding via a perpetual rotor.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023

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