one-way communication

collocation in English

meaningsofone-wayandcommunication

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one-way
adjective
uk
/ˌwʌnˈweɪ/us
/ˌwʌnˈweɪ/
travelling or allowing travel in only ...
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communication
noun
uk
/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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(Definition ofone-wayandcommunicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The final work should be made available to those that it explores, and their responses should be acknowledged and heard, activating a dialogue rather than aone-waycommunication.
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However, thoseone-waycommunicationmachines do not require that the caller talk to a machine, but only to hold on until a live speaker is available.
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The last people who are consulted about theone-waycommunication, which is the nature of the medium, are members of the audience.
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Do they envisage one-way visibility only on the video link,one-waycommunicationand one-way questioning or, by implication, do they mean that there will be an opportunity for cross-examination?
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Most load control switches have onlyone-waycommunication, receiving signals from the power company.
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E-government isone-waycommunicationprotocol whereas e-governance is two-way communication protocol.
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Only the server can read the mailslot, as such mailslots represent aone-waycommunicationmechanism.
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Entertainment video applications are largely point-to-multi-point connections, requiringone-waycommunicationof full motion video and audio from the program source to the viewers.
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This also allows simpleone-waycommunicationfrom the lexer to the parser, without needing any information flowing back to the lexer.
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Broadcast is aone-waycommunicationfrom one node to another (or many).
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There are also hybrid systems that combine one-way and two-way technologies, usingone-waycommunicationfor reading and two-way communication for programming functions.
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Field marketing is historically thought of as aone-waycommunicationtool.
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Essentially they are a shared drive, serving up centrally stored documents alongside internal articles or communications (oftenone-waycommunication).
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In radio networks however, it may very well be that onlyone-waycommunicationis possible.
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The co-operation is aone-waycommunication.
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The story is told in the form of messages that are sent by the time traveler using aone-waycommunicationlink that exists between the time traveler and the scientist.
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