SIDE-TO-SIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does side-to-side mean? 

• SIDE-TO-SIDE (adjective)
  The adjective SIDE-TO-SIDE has 1 sense:

1. alternately left and right with respect to a central point

  Familiarity information: SIDE-TO-SIDE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDE-TO-SIDE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Alternately left and right with respect to a central point

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the side-to-side motion of the boat

Pertainym:

side (either the left or right half of a body)

 Context examples 

The buoy's orientation is measured using a digital compass that provides heading, pitch, and roll information –- helping to capture the crucial side-to-side motion of the Earth that can be diagnostic of major tsunami-producing earthquakes.

(Geoscientists develop technology to improve forecasting of earthquakes, tsunamis, National Science Foundation)

Malabsorption, especially of vitamin B12 or folic acid, due to metabolic competition by bacteria proliferating in a segment of small intestine excluded from normal peristaltic movement; it may occur as a postoperative complication of side-to-side anastomosis of intestine, as a result of intestinal diverticula, fistula, etc.

(Blind Loop Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)