unary

English

Etymology

Late Latin unarius (“consisting of a single thing”), from unus (“one”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjunəɹi/

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.
Negation is a unary operation.

Translations

consisting of or involving a single element or component

German: einstellig (de)

Malay: sesatu

mathematics, programming: of a funciton, to take one argument

Czech: unární
German: unär
Icelandic: einstæður m

Malay: sesatu
Swedish: unär (sv)

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.

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