Unidirectional vs Bidirectional - What's the difference?
unidirectional | bidirectional | Antonyms |
Pertaining to only one direction, e.g.: where all component parts are aligned in the same direction in space.
* 2005 , Richard Samson, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting , edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 119:
Moving in two directions (usually opposite).
Operating or functioning in two directions (usually opposite).
Bidirectional is a antonym of unidirectional.
As adjectives the difference between unidirectional and bidirectional
is that unidirectional is pertaining to only one direction, e.g.: where all component parts are aligned in the same direction in space while bidirectional is moving in two directions (usually opposite).unidirectional
English
Adjective
(-)- Equally important is the class mailing list, which facilitates two-way communication at a distance. (By contrast, the web page is basically a unidirectional teacher-to-student communication.)