English

Adjective

oneshot ‎(not comparable)

1. Alternative form of one-shot
   • 2012, Yehuda Gradus, Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands, ISBN 9400953968, page 18:

     Thus, to generalise wildly for much larger regions on the basis of oneshot research is, to put it mildly, quite foolhardy.

   • 2012, V. Rittberger, Evolution and International Organization, ISBN 9401020019:

     Alger refrains from making explicit evaluations of the stat of the discipline, but his summary of major findings culled from the surveyed publications clearly demonstrates the low level of theoretical achievement: Unrelated oneshot generalizations and bivariate propositions abound, but little effort is spent on pin-pointing their theoretical relevance.

Noun

oneshot ‎(plural oneshots)

1. Alternative form of one-shot
   • 1942, Paul Henry Cassidy, An Approach to the Profession of the Comic Strip Cartooning Based Upon an Analytical Survey of Current Trends and Personal Experiences:

     We supply occasional suggestions, write continuities, or put in backgrounds, when he is crowded with work, which sometimes occurs when oneshots coincide with regular deadlines

   • 1965, Legislative Record, page 578:

     It is well-known that we cannot carry this surplus over. Therefore, he is giving these oneshots to some of these institutions. Now why does he not give the public a break?

   • 1971, R.E. Davis & R.B. Kenyon, “Registration of operant responses in fish”, in Mental Health Research Institute Staff Publications - Part 1:

     The maximum response frequency of the Gibbs is limited with a oneshot to block the registration of postresponse contact bounces or "false responses," which would otherwise inflate the response rate. In investigations with 7- to 12-cm goldfish, for example, we set the response oneshot at 400 msec.

   • 1977, Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools for the Professional Programmer, ISBN 093437516X:

     This kit is complete with its own 80v power supply, features onboard timing independent of the CPU clocks and contains its own microprogram for read and write control. No oneshots are used.

   • 1995, Topps Comics, The X-Files Collection, page 1:

     Do you find that you prefer oneshots or multi-parters?

   • 2008, Buster Fayte, The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit, ISBN 076868756X:

     On the other hand, think of a cymbal crash recorded alone. Or a snare hit. If you repeated those over and over, it'd be nothing but annoying! So developers put these types of sounds into oneshot files. You can think of oneshots as building blocks.