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uni-directional

uni-directional is the misspelling of unidirectional.

Meaning of unidirectional

Adjective

unidirectional (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to only one direction, e.g.: where all component parts are aligned in the same direction in space.
    • [...] a reversible booster was fitted to the trailing bogie; all previous applications on the L.N.E.R. for use in main line traffic had been of unidirectional boosters, […]1941 November, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VI—Experiments and Rebuilds 1927-33”, in Railway Magazine, page 483
    Synonyms:
    simplex
  2. Not subject to change or reversal of direction.

See all 3 meanings of unidirectional

Questions about uni-directional

What is uni-directional the misspelling of?
Uni-directional is the misspelling of unidirectional.

Words near uni-directional in the dictionary

  1. uni'd
  2. uni'ed
  3. uni'ing
  4. uni's
  5. uni-
  6. uni-directional
  7. uni-directionalities
  8. uni-directionality
  9. UNIA
  10. unialgal
  11. uniallelic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uni-directional (page history and authors); unidirectional (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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