unilateral

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

unilateral
    adj 1: involving only one part or side; "unilateral paralysis";
           "a unilateral decision" [syn: {unilateral}, {one-sided}]
           [ant: {many-sided}, {multilateral}]
    2: tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line
       only

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Unilateral \U`ni*lat"er*al\, a. [Uni- + lateral: cf. F.
   unilat['e]ral.]
   1. Being on one side only; affecting but one side; one-sided.
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   2. (Biol.) Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a
      unilateral raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one
      side of a common axis, or are all turned to one side.
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   {Unilateral contract} (Law), a contract or engagement
      requiring future action only by one party.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "unilateral":
      bifacial, bilateral, dihedral, flanked, handed, lateral,
      many-sided, monadal, monadic, multilateral, one-piece, one-sided,
      polyhedral, quadrilateral, sided, tetrahedral, three-sided,
      trihedral, trilateral, triquetrous, two-sided, uniangulate,
      unibivalent, unibranchiate, unicameral, unicellular, unicuspid,
      unidentate, unidigitate, unidimensional, unidirectional,
      uniflorous, unifoliate, unifoliolate, unigenital, uniglobular,
      unilinear, uniliteral, unilobed, unilobular, unimodular,
      unimolecular, uniocular, unipart, unipartite, unipolar, univalent,
      univocal