unary

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

unary (not comparable)

1. Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
2. (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

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

• Icelandic: einstæður (is) m

• Swedish: unär (sv)

Noun

unary (plural unaries)

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

Coordinate terms

• binary
• ternary