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