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unidirectional

unidirectional

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unidirectional (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to only one direction, e.g.: where all component parts are aligned in the same direction in space.
    • 2005, Richard Samson, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 119:
      Equally important is the class mailing list, which facilitates two-way communication at a distance. (By contrast, the web page is basically a unidirectional teacher-to-student communication.)

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