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Unilateral

adjective

Involving only one part or side. Synonym: one-sided. "A unilateral decision"

Tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only.

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... (became self-governing in free association with New Zealand on 4 August 1965 and has the right at any time to move to full independence by unilateral action) ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... long narrow leaves. Spikelets are 2-flowered, narrow, biseriate, unilateral, imbricate on the rachis of a solitary spike; the rachilla is elongate between the flowering glumes and produced beyond them and terminates in a rudimentary awned glume. There are four glumes. The first two glumes are hyaline, unequal-nerved and persistent. ...

— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

... examination showed this to be a case of intramural twin pregnancy at the point of entrance of the tube and the uterus, while at the abdominal end of the same tube there was another ovum,—the whole being an example of triple unilateral ectopic gestation. ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... wide variety of situations that range from traditional bilateral boundary disputes to unilateral claims of one sort or another. Every international land boundary dispute in the "Guide to International Boundaries," a map published by the Department of State, is included. References to other situations may also be included that are border- or frontier-relevant, such as maritime disputes, ...

— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Words linked to "Unilateral" : direct, one-party, lineal, multilateral