one-way

1. not comparableAllowing movement, vision, etc. in only one direction; unidirectional.

   one-way mirror

   2 more examples

   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.

   2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1087

   Antonyms: two-way, bidirectional

2. not comparableAllowing travel in only one direction.

   I bought a one-way ticket to Leeds.

   Antonyms: round-trip, return

3. not comparablecomputerOf a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input.

present singular third person one-ways · participle present one-waying · participle past one-wayed · past one-wayed

1. transitiveagricultureTo 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.

   1935, Report of the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, page 58

plural one-ways

1. uncommonlifestyleA 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

   2025, Twenty One Pilots, “One Way”, in One Way