| Subject | English | Chinese Taiwan |
| comp., MS | bidirectional prediction | 雙向預測 (A compression technique in which some images are predicted from the picture immediately preceding and following the image) |
| comp., MS | bidirectional predictive frame | 雙向預測畫面 (In MPEG and WMV encoding, a frame that contains only the differences from the frame preceding it and the frame following it) |
| comp., MS | bidirectional printing | 雙向列印 (The ability of an impact or ink-jet printer to print from left to right and from right to left. Bidirectional printing improves speed substantially because no time is wasted returning the print head to the beginning of the next line, but it may lower print quality) |