Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)Allowing movement, vision, etc. in only one direction; unidirectional.

    one-way mirror

    The town centre is now a system of one-way streets.

    moving or permitting movement in one direction only

  2. (not comparable)Allowing travel in only one direction.

    I bought a one-way ticket to Leeds.

    einfach, unidirektional, Einweg-

    в оди́н коне́цv odín konéc, в одну́ сто́ронуv odnú stóronu, односторо́ннийodnostorónnij

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

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
allowing travel in only one direction:
allowing movement in only one direction:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
allowing travel in only one direction:
allowing movement in only one direction:

Origin

From one + way. First attested in 1906 in reference to one-way tickets; 1914 in reference

From one + way. First attested in 1906 in reference to one-way tickets; 1914 in reference to one-way streets; 1940 in reference to one-way mirrors.

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