one-way en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From one + way. First attested in 1906 in reference to one-way tickets; 1914 in reference to one-way streets; 1940 in reference to one-way mirrors.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Allowing movement, vision, etc. in only one direction; unidirectional.
one-way mirror
The town centre is now a system of one-way streets.
Traditional feedback collection through pen-and-paper questionnaires and oral reports usually only supplies one-way feedback, from student to teacher.
2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1087:
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(not-comparable) Allowing travel in only one direction.
I bought a one-way ticket to Leeds.
- (not-comparable) Of a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input.
Antonyms
bidirectional · return · round-trip · two-way
Deriveds
one-way street · one-way ticket · one-way mirror
Translations (40)
cmn 單向 /单向 (allowing movement in only one direction) · ja 一方通行 (allowing movement in only one direction) · de Einbahn- (allowing movement in only one direction) · fr aller simple (allowing travel in only one direction) · ga aontreo (allowing movement in only one direction) · mk еднонасочен (allowing movement in only one direction) · bg еднопосочен (computer science: easy to compute, hard to invert) · el χωρίς επιστροφή (allowing travel in only one direction) · fi yksisuuntainen (allowing movement in only one direction) · ru в оди́н коне́ц (allowing travel in only one direction) · cmn 單程 /单程 (allowing travel in only one direction) · ru в одну́ сто́рону (allowing travel in only one direction) · cs jednosměrný (allowing movement in only one direction) · ru односторо́нний (allowing movement in only one direction) · hu egyirányú (allowing travel in only one direction) · pt de mão única (allowing movement in only one direction) · bg еднопосочен (allowing travel in only one direction) · de einfach (allowing travel in only one direction) · hu egyirányú (allowing movement in only one direction) · mi ahutahi (allowing travel in only one direction) · ko 편도 (allowing travel in only one direction) · it senso unico (allowing movement in only one direction) · ja 片道 (allowing travel in only one direction) · sv enkelriktad (allowing movement in only one direction) · fr à sens unique (allowing movement in only one direction) · pl jednostronny (allowing movement in only one direction) · la irredux (allowing movement in only one direction) · sq njëdrejtimësh (allowing movement in only one direction) · sv enkelriktad (allowing travel in only one direction) · pt sem retorno (allowing travel in only one direction) · fi yksisuuntainen (allowing travel in only one direction) · de Einweg- (allowing movement in only one direction) · mk еднонасочен (allowing travel in only one direction) · pl jednokierunkowy (allowing movement in only one direction) · el μονόδρομος (allowing movement in only one direction) · de unidirektional (allowing movement in only one direction) · bg еднопосочен (allowing movement in only one direction) · mi ahutahi (allowing movement in only one direction) · pl jednostronny (allowing travel in only one direction) · ko 일방통행 (allowing movement in only one direction)