Two-way

Quick meaning: Two-way is an adjective meaning (road transport) Of a highway, allowing traffic in two directions.

Meaning

(road transport) Of a highway, allowing traffic in two directions.

More Meanings

1. (road transport) Of traffic or visibility, moving or occurring in opposite directions.
2. (radio) Permitting communication in two directions, i.e. both transmitting and receiving.
3. Of a project, treaty, etc., involving the mutual action or participation of two parties.
4. (education) Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways.
5. (American football, ice hockey) Playing both offense and defense in the same game.
6. (statistics) Of a table, etc., having or involving exactly two variables; bivariate.
7. (Cincinnati) A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti.

Example Sentences

A two-way chart; a two-way table.

There are increasing examples of Indigenous-led research, and "two-way" collaborative research between scientists and Indigenous land custodians.

The inner power cars are brake second class compartment coaches; the guard has means of both bell and two-way telephone communication with the driving compartment.

Word Forms

• two-ways

Synonyms for two-way

Depending on context, synonyms include bilateral, nonpartisan, two-sided, bidirectional, bipartite, bipartisan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bidirectional, two-sided, bipartite, bilateral, bipartisan, nonpartisan.

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