one-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oneshot
Senses: examples: A one-shot solution to financial problems
glosses: Needing only a single attempt to become effective.
examples: text: The most effective way to adapt to changing circumstances would be to enter into one-shot deals that would leave the party the freedom to enter into subsequent transactions or not, depending on the then-current circumstances.
ref: 2012, Dennis C. Mueller, The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism, →ISBN:
text: Given the particular payoffs in Prisoner's Dilemma games, it is always rational to defect on the other player as long as the game is one-shot and not repeated infinitely. Regardless of what the other player does, you get a higher payoff by defecting than cooperating. In one-shot games, there is nothing the other can do to punish you for defecting.
ref: 2012, Satoshi Kanazawa, The Intelligence Paradox, →ISBN:
text: One-shot volunteering projects are also common, though possibly somewhat less so than hobbyist-like projects.
ref: 2015, Robert A. Stebbins, Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time, →ISBN:
glosses: Unique; occurring only once.
examples: text: Whether a window is one-shot or not makes little difference from the perspective of the programmer. A one-shot window costs more to make visible but uses less memory when it is not being displayed.
ref: 2009, David Chisnall, Cocoa Programming Developer's Handbook, →ISBN:
text: Programming experts, on the other hand, might benefit from knowing that blocks are closures, which are one-shot anonymous functions with data attached.
ref: 2010, Michael Hartl, Ruby on Rails 2.3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example, →ISBN, page 12-159:
text: The most widely supported AF mode is one-shot focusing, which is best for still subjects.
ref: 2013, Margaret Brown, Digital SLR Pocket Guide 3rd Edition, →ISBN:
glosses: Performing all the necessary steps on every occurrence, rather than relying on previous setup.
examples: text: Analysts typically conduct one-shot case studies on unique events of history.
ref: 2010, Dipak K. Gupta, Analyzing Public Policy: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques, →ISBN:
text: The simplest of all pre-experimental group research designs is the one-shot case study, also known as the cross-sectional study. The one-shot case study is appropriate for answering exploratory and descriptive research questions related to what exists at a certain point in time.
ref: 2013, Judy L. Krysik, Jerry Finn, Research for Effective Social Work Practice, →ISBN:
text: An improvement on the one-shot survey is the single group, pretest-posttest design.
ref: 2013, Robert G. Bringle, Julie A. Hatcher, Patti H. Clayton, Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessments, →ISBN:
text: To illustrate the deficiencies of these designs in evaluation research, we provide a case study of their use— fortunately, these kinds of one-shot designs are getting harder and harder to find!
ref: 2016, Ronet D. Bachman, Russell K. Schutt, The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, →ISBN:
qualifier: research design
glosses: Measuring something at a single point in time, with no control group.
examples: text: Now the best shooters in the world fired the best rifle in the world, one-shot/one-kill out to one thousand meters.
ref: 2008, Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Soldier's Story of Modern War, →ISBN:
text: The kills had been one-shot and these enemy, whoever the hell they were, were dead.
ref: 2009, Jim Case, Cody's Army: Philippine Hardpunch, →ISBN:
text: But where the heart is concerned, a one-shot, silver bullet approach would be the ultimate disservice.
ref: 2012, Michael Kane, Heal Your Broken Heart, →ISBN, page xii:
glosses: Pertaining to a single shot.
Involving a single gunshot.
examples: text: Here it was sucked from tiny one-shot bottles wrapped in coarse paper, taken between drafts of good East German beer.
ref: 1992, T. Davis Bunn, The Amber Room, →ISBN:
text: Rodeo struggled up through layers of sleep and saw a jumble of beer cans and one-shot liquor bottles, cold pizza, ripped stockings and underwear and a hash pipe.
ref: 2014, C. B. McKenzie, Bad Country: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to a single shot.
Holding 1.5 ounces.
examples: text: Ask anyone — golf writers, designers, players —and they all agree the coolest thing about the one-shot hole is — you can complete it in one shot.
ref: 2011, Michael Bartlett, Tony Roberts, Pete and Alice Dye, Golf's Finest Par Threes: The Art and Science of the One-Shot Hole, →ISBN:
text: And the real true measure of that was when I got to eighteen, and I had a one-shot lead at the time, and I hit a perfect tee shot—this is the last day, the fondest day, Sunday.
ref: 2014, Bob McCullough, My Greatest Day in Golf, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pertaining to a single shot.
Involving a single act of launching a ball.