UNARY

unary

(adjective) consisting of or involving a single element or component; “in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

unary (not comparable)

Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.

Noun

unary (plural unaries)

(mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.

(information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.

Coordinate terms

• binary

• ternary

Anagrams

• anury

Source: Wiktionary



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