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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having, presenting, or oriented toward a single face.
- adj. Archaeology Flaked in such a way as to produce a cutting edge that is sharp on one side only. Used of a stone tool.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having only one face, front, or aspect; all facing the same way, as the polypites of some corals; unifarious; secund. See cut under sen-kidney.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having, or showing, a single face.
- adj. Having only one principal or specialized surface or edge.
- adj. Cylindrical.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having but one front surface.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having but one principal or specialized surface
Examples
“A team led by Michael R. Waters of Texas A&M University used thermoluminescence dating to estimate the ages of layers above and below one containing stone flakes and a few rocks resembling simple tools known as unifacial choppers.”
“Sally McBrearty. fi ned to the periphery (Mason, 1962) .7 A common form is a long foliate unifacial point with ventral bulbar reduction.”
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