multidirectional
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˌmʌltiˈdɪrɛkʃənl/
- The team used a multidirectional strategy to ensure all players could contribute simultaneously.
- multidirectional flow
- multidirectional manner
- multidirectional memory
Examples
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Emphasizing ambiguity and multidirectional influences, this re-formulation enables us to pose a series of new questions.
Academic text (2006) -
The involvement of all these different players necessitates a multidirectional flow of data.
Academic text (2002) -
The star dune is the result of multidirectional wind.
Fiction book (2002) -
The formation of new relationships as a result of a multidirectional approach to traumatic memory constitutes a major theme in his work.
Academic text (2012) -
Disability correlates with disadvantage, but causation is multidirectional.
Academic text (2013) -
The educator who operates under the contextual paradigm sees the child and the environment as having an interactive, multidirectional relationship.
Academic text (2003) -
As popolo parties guided the articulation of public space, open-walled architecture multiplied around civic piazzas, allowing for multidirectional viewing.
Academic text (2015) -
The robot was designed to navigate obstacles by moving in a multidirectional manner.
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The new map displays multidirectional routes, allowing for various travel options.
Synonyms
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7.9
Able to send or receive signals equally in every direction
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6.0
Not aimed in any one direction
Antonyms
How Many Directions
Surface Forms
Morphology
multidirectional = directional (transparent) = multi + direction + al
The word is transparently formed by adding multi- to directional, yielding the meaning 'in many directions.'
Etymology
Multidirectional is made of multi- which means 'many' and the familiar word direction which means 'way' or 'path'. So, multidirectional describes something that moves, works, or affects in many directions at the same time.