one-way

adjective

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   Allowing travel in only one direction.

   I bought a one-way ticket to Leeds.

3. 3

   Of a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input.

verb

1. 1

   To use a disc harrow to turn the soil and kill weeds, in preparation for planting seeds.

   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.

noun

1. 1

   A one-way trip or flight.

   I wanted to fly but they say a system's coming in Chances are high that this is a one way

Forms

plural

one-ways

past tense

one-wayed

past participle

one-wayed

present participle

one-waying

third person singular

one-ways