Unary

Quick meaning: Unary is an adjective meaning Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

Meaning

Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.
2. (information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
3. (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.

Example Sentences

Negation is a unary operation.

Her work is a renunciation of the old narrative, a throwing away of the cotton reel, an enunciation of the unary signifier, fort, that is meaningless in itself.

On the other hand, blank spaces should not be used for unary operators such as unary minus (−), address of (&), indirection (*), member access (.), increment (++), and decrement (−−).

Zadeh’s claim is that if the meaning of an expression (X) can be modeling by a fuzzy membership function variable, then the meaning of an expression such as “very X” is simply a membership function over the same variable determined by applying a unary operator to the membership function for X.

Word Forms

• unaries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include single, unitary, uniform, unified, minus, unit.

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