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Allowing movement in only one direction; unidirectional. quotations examples
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
Allowing travel in only one direction. examples
(computer science) Of a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input. examples
third-person singular simple present one-ways, present participle one-waying, simple past and past participle one-wayed
(agriculture) To use a disc harrow to turn the soil and kill weeds, in preparation for planting seeds. quotations examples
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