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one way

one way is the alternative form of one-way.

Meaning of one-way

Adjective

one-way (not comparable)

  1. Allowing movement, vision, etc. in only one direction; unidirectional.
    • one-way mirror
  2. Allowing travel in only one direction.
    • I bought a one-way ticket to Leeds.
    Antonyms:
    round-trip, return
  3. Of a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input.

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Questions about one way

What is one way the alternative form of?
One way is the alternative form of one-way.

Words near one way in the dictionary

  1. one unders
  2. one up
  3. one upped
  4. one upping
  5. one ups
  6. one way
  7. one way or another
  8. one way or other
  9. one way or the other
  10. one weird trick
  11. one who hesitates is lost

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