unidirectionally
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- adverb
- /ˌjuːnɪdɪˈrɛkʃənəli/
- The traffic was directed unidirectionally to prevent congestion during the event.
Examples
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The water flows unidirectionally through the pipes, ensuring a steady supply to each house.
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Importantly, other historians have questioned the notion that ideas about medicine and nursing were simply passed unidirectionally from colonizer to subject and have brought further attention to the unique power hierarchies between and within various racial groupings.
Academic text (2016) -
If the flow runs unidirectionally in parallel with the boundary wall, it is assessed as laminar.
Academic text (2016) -
The point being: privatization does not unidirectionally impede rights, and the conventional model does not necessarily protect them.
Academic text (2017) -
By portraying the ideologies of racial democracy as forces operating unidirectionally in favor of subordination and demobilization, the critics have also downplayed the capacity of blacks and other groups to appropriate these myths and use them to their advantage.
Academic text (1999) -
In the experiment, the particles moved unidirectionally along the tube, demonstrating consistent behavior.
Synonyms
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2.7
Allowing travel in only one direction
Antonyms
How Directional
Surface Forms
Morphology
unidirectionally = unidirectional (transparent) = uni + direction + al + ly
The adverb is transparently formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'unidirectional', which itself is clearly uni- (one) + direction + -al.
Etymology
The word unidirectionally comes from uni- meaning 'one', as in unicorn, and direction meaning 'way'. So it describes something that moves or works 'in one direction only', like traffic on a one-way street.