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Definition of Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon
Boustrophedon Bou`stro*phe"don, n. [Gr. ? turning like oxen in plowing; ? to turn.] An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

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- Boustrophedon (/ˌbuːstrəˈfiːdən/) is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style...
- In mathematics, the boustrophedon transform is a procedure which maps one sequence to another. The transformed sequence is computed by an "addition" operation...
- text containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to boustrophedon, which is changing text direction in each row. Many computer programs...
- The boustrophedon cell decomposition (BCD) is a method used in artificial intelligence and robotics for configuration space solutions. Like other cellular...
- Boustrophedon is a live album by free jazz saxophonist and composer Evan Parker and the Transatlantic Art Ensemble, featuring Roscoe Mitc****, recorded...
- usage. Some texts are boustrophedon Old Latin could be written from right to left (as were Etruscan and early Gr****) or boustrophedon. Lydian alphabet (Lydi...
- believe the square should be read in a boustrophedon style (i.e. in alternating directions). The boustrophedon style, which in Gr**** means "as the Ox...
- style with alternating right-to-left and left-to-right lines (called boustrophedon, literally "ox-turning", after the manner of an ox ploughing a field)...
- spaces or punctuation between words to differentiate or mark boundaries. Boustrophedon, or bi-directional text, was also used in Ancient Gr****. Gr**** has occasionally...
- albeit with some variation among dialects. Early texts are written in boustrophedon style, but left-to-right became standard during the classic period....