unidirectional en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- yo͞o'nĭ-dĭ-rĕkʹshə-nəl (General-American)
- -ˈɹɛkʃ.nl̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
- -ˈɹɛkʃ.nəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- -daɪ- (Received-Pronunciation)
- -daɪ-/ (General-American)
- [ˌjuː.nɨ.dɨˈɹɛk.ʃə.nl̩ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌjuː.nɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌjuː.nɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl (General-American)
- -dī- (General-American)
- -daɪ-] (General-American)
- [ˌjuː.nɪ̈.dɪ̈ˈɹɛk.ʃə.nl̩ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Latin ūni-der. English uni- English direction English -al English directional English unidirectional From uni- + directional.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to only one direction, e.g.: where all component parts are aligned in the same direction in space.
[...] a reversible booster was fitted to the trailing bogie; all previous applications on the L.N.E.R. for use in main line traffic had been of unidirectional boosters, […]
1941 November, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VI—Experiments and Rebuilds 1927-33”, in Railway Magazine, page 483:Equally important is the class mailing list, which facilitates two-way communication at a distance. (By contrast, the web page is basically a unidirectional teacher-to-student communication.)
2005, Richard Samson, edited by Martha Tennent, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, Benjamins Translation Library, page 119:
- (not-comparable) Not subject to change or reversal of direction.
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Deriveds
unidirectionality · nonunidirectional · unidirectionally
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Translations (17)
fi tasasuuntainen (pertaining to only one direction) · nl eenrichtings- (pertaining to only one direction) · pl jednokierunkowy (pertaining to only one direction) · fi yksisuuntainen (pertaining to only one direction) · el ομοιοκατευθυνόμενος (pertaining to only one direction) · hi एकदिश (pertaining to only one direction) · uk односпрямо́ваний (pertaining to only one direction) · fr unidirectionnel (pertaining to only one direction) · hu egyirányú (pertaining to only one direction) · ru однонапра́вленный (pertaining to only one direction) · de unidirektional (pertaining to only one direction) · hi एकदिशीय (pertaining to only one direction) · bg еднопосочен (pertaining to only one direction) · sv enkelriktad (pertaining to only one direction) · ga aontreoch (pertaining to only one direction) · nl unidirectioneel (pertaining to only one direction) · ca unidireccional (pertaining to only one direction)