ONE-YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-year mean? 

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

1. completing its life cycle within a year

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-YEAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Completing its life cycle within a year

Synonyms:

annual; one-year

Context example:

a border of annual flowering plants

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

 Context examples 

The researchers determined one-year outcomes for about 94% of the pregnancies.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers followed 82 newly licensed teen drivers over a one-year period, equipping their vehicles with cameras and GPS technology to track the driver’s activity and environment.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)

Previous data sets have either given a one-year snapshot of velocities, focused on a different location, or averaged rates of change over much larger areas of Antarctica, obscuring velocity changes over time and the behavior of individual glaciers.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)