Meaning & use
unidirectional
Moving, functioning, or flowing in a single direction only.
See it in a sentence
The microphone's unidirectional design picks up sound mainly from one side.
Traffic on this unidirectional street always flows toward downtown, never away from it.
A note on using this word
Common in technical fields such as engineering, audio, and traffic design to describe single-direction flow or movement.
Words with a similar meaning
one-way
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Words with an opposite meaning
bidirectionalmultidirectional
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