unidirectional
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- adjective
- /ˌjunɪdəˈrɛkʃənl/
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unidireccional
- As Ethridge (1989) emphasized, socialization has long been viewed as unidirectional: society's impact on the individual.
- unidirectional model
- unidirectional tracing
- unidirectional bus
Last question, is time itself unidirectional or it's just the way our brain perceive it?
- Last question, is time itself unidirectional or it's just the way our brain perceive it?
- I have some unidirectional ones, but they're so light they only last like one per cut and then they break.
Examples
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Two major categories of tow and warp combinations are commonly used for hand lay-ups: unidirectional and bidirectional.
Academic text (1993) -
Also, some applications may require data communication to be bidirectional instead of unidirectional.
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Traditional conceptualizations of reading depict it as a unidirectional, passive process.
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Since education was completed before marriage and childbearing began, it has, one may presume, a unidirectional impact on fertility.
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Population transfers due to incarceration are unidirectional in many states; urban areas lose population while rural jurisdictions swell.
Academic text (2017) -
FIFO buffers are also used to connect adjacent processors in the unidirectional ring.
Academic text (2000) -
The microphone used was an Audio-Technica AT9100, a close-speaking unidirectional microphone with a sensitivity of -60 dBm.
Academic text (1991) -
The bus route is unidirectional; all passengers travel in one direction only.
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In physics, a unidirectional force will cause an object to move in a single pathway without deviation.
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The unidirectional flow of water in the river prevents any backflow, ensuring a consistent current.
Synonyms
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Allowing travel in only one direction
Not moving back and forth but moving in one steady motion
Not able to be pulled back after you pull it out
Cannot be pulled back into a covering, for example claws that stay out
Cannot be changed back or used with either side facing out
Antonyms
How Directional
Surface Forms
Morphology
unidirectional = directional (transparent) = uni + direction + al
The word is formed by prefixing 'uni-' to 'directional' and the meaning 'one-direction' is directly inferable.
Etymology
Unidirectional comes from uni- meaning 'one', like in unicycle, and direction meaning 'way'. So a unidirectional thing moves or works in only 'one-way', like a 'one-way' street.