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single-sided

single-sided adjective: having something on one side only.

Adjective

single-sided (not comparable)

  1. Having something on one side only.
    • Unlike the "West Coast Postal" of the L.M.R., the Western Region TPO train is not turned at each end of its journey, and as the coaches with pick-up/set-down apparatus are single-sided, one coach serves the mail exchange points on the down journey, a second coach marshalled the other way round...1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581

Questions about single-sided

What does single-sided mean?
Single-sided means having something on one side only.
What part of speech is single-sided?
Single-sided is an adjective.

Words near single-sided in the dictionary

  1. single-serving sites
  2. single-sex
  3. single-shot
  4. single-sideband modulation
  5. single-sideband modulations
  6. single-sided
  7. single-space
  8. single-spaced
  9. single-spaces
  10. single-spacing
  11. single-speed bicycle

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