Word of the Day: AMBIDEXTROUS

Both hands are right

ambidextrous (adj) - able to use both the left and right hand with equal ease and skill; suitable for both hands or multiple uses [am-bi-dek-struhs]

BREAKDOWN: AMBI- (both) + DEXTER- (right hand) + -OUS (having qualities of)

• ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well; skill, talent, or flexibility in two or more fields

• an ambidexter is someone who acts on both sides of an argument or for either side in a contest or dispute

See also: ambiguous, ambivalent

“For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.” —George E. P. Box