Associations to the word «Unary»

Wiktionary

UNARY, adjective. Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
UNARY, adjective. (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.
UNARY, noun. (mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
UNARY, noun. (information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
UNARY OPERATION, noun. (algebra) An operation taking one operand like the square, factorial or absolute value operation.
UNARY OPERATOR, noun. (algebra) (computing) A symbol representing unary operation; an operator taking one operand.

Dictionary definition

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".

Wise words

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