Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having two faces, fronts, or façades.
- adjective Having two opposing surfaces that are alike.
- adjective Archaeology Flaked in such a way as to produce a cutting edge that is sharp on both sides. Used of a stone tool.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the opposite surfaces alike.
- In botany, having the opposite faces unlike: as, the bifacial arrangement of the parenchyma or green pulp upon the two faces of a leaf. Also
dorsiventral . - Having two fronts or principal faces; specifically, having two human faces turned in opposite directions, as a medal or an image.
- In geometry, having two distinguishable sides or faces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the opposite surfaces alike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having two
faces or opposingsurfaces - adjective archaeology Having two sharp
cutting edges
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having two faces or fronts
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Examples
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The company says the cells are less than 50 microns, or less than two-thousandths of an inch, making them the thinnest in production, and bifacial, meaning they can capture sun energy from both faces.
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The company says the cells are less than 50 microns, or less than two-thousandths of an inch, making them the thinnest in production, and bifacial, meaning they can capture sun energy from both faces.
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The Mahaffy Cache consists of 83 stone implements ranging from salad plate-sized, elegantly crafted bifacial knives and a unique tool resembling a double-bitted ax to small blades and flint scraps.
Archive 2009-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2007
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The Mahaffy Cache consists of 83 stone implements ranging from salad plate-sized, elegantly crafted bifacial knives and a unique tool resembling a double-bitted ax to small blades and flint scraps.
FACE OF SORROW HAIKU News from Mad Plato 2007
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Besides the ochre, some of the more spectacular finds at the cave over the past few years include the oldest known and dated bone tools in the world; the earliest known evidence for fishing in the world; and highly sophisticated bifacial spearheads or points made in fine-grained stone.
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Microdrills for boring out beads, and fragments of carefully knapped bifacial knives also turned up.
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Discovery of a fluted bifacial point at the site of Uptar in northeastern Siberia may force archaeologists to reconsider the origins of the Clovis point, a hallmark of the New World Paleoindian tradition.
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She classified other tools by their shape, producing a list of polyhedrons, discoids, spheroids, bifacial points, ovates, and outils écaillés scaled tools.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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She classified other tools by their shape, producing a list of polyhedrons, discoids, spheroids, bifacial points, ovates, and outils écaillés scaled tools.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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"Ranec's mother's people, the Aterians, make a spear point with bifacial retouch."
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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