ONE-WAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-way mean? 

• ONE-WAY (adjective)
  The adjective ONE-WAY has 1 sense:

1. moving or permitting movement in one direction only

  Familiarity information: ONE-WAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-WAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving or permitting movement in one direction only

Context example:

a one-way ticket

Similar:

unidirectional (operating or moving or allowing movement in one direction only)

 Context examples 

In contrast, bird breath travels in this tidal flow pattern through part of the respiratory system, but in a one-way loop throughout most of the lung.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

Her handler hides behind opaque one-way glass.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

In the one-way MLC test, the lymphocytes from one of the individuals are inactivated (usually by treatment with mitomycin C or radiation) thereby allowing only the untreated remaining population of cells to proliferate in response to foreign histocompatibility antigens.

(Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction Test, NCI Thesaurus)