one-way
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See also: oneway
English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wʌn.weɪ/, enPR: wŭnʹwāʹ
- The stress can fall on either syllable, or on each syllable equally, with no distinction in meaning.
Adjective
one-way (not comparable)
- Allowing movement, vision, etc. in only one direction; unidirectional.
- Antonyms: two-way, bidirectional
- one-way mirror
- The town centre is now a system of one-way streets.
- 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:
- Traditional feedback collection through pen-and-paper questionnaires and oral reports usually only supplies one-way feedback, from student to teacher.
- Allowing travel in only one direction.
- Antonym: return
- I bought a one-way ticket to Leeds.
- (computer science) Of a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input.
Derived terms
Translations
allowing movement in only one direction
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allowing travel in only one direction
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Verb
one-way (third-person singular simple present one-ways, present participle one-waying, simple past and past participle one-wayed)
- (agriculture) To use a disc harrow to turn the soil and kill weeds, in preparation for planting seeds.
- 1935, Report of the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, page 58:
- Over a period of 10 years, the average yield under stubble-mulch tillage has been 10 percent greater than under one-waying with continuous wheat, and 14 percent greater than under one-waying with wheat on fallow.