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boustrophedonic (adjective), more boustrophedonic, most boustrophedonic
1. A reference to the ancient method of writing in which the lines are inscribed alternately from right to left and from left to right.
2. Having a back-and-forth motion with a small step at right angles to the transit at each pass, as in a scanning device.
3. Etymology: turning like oxen in ploughing; a term used only in early Greek writing, which went from left to right and then right to left alternately.
Word Entries containing the term: “boustrophedonic
boustrophedonic imaging (s) (noun), boustrophedonic imagings (pl)
Scanning in which the detector that records isotopic emissions moves in alternating opposite directions in a descending series of horizontal lines.