μονόδρομος — meaning in English
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English meaning
- simplex adj Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
Senses
μονόδρομος is used for these senses in English:
- one-way Allowing movement, vision, etc. in only one direction; unidirectional.
- one-way street A road in which traffic is allowed to proceed in only one direction.
- simplex (computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
simplex — full definition
- adj Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
- adj Of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation.
- adj Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
- adj Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.