unary
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editunary (not comparable)
- Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
- 1995, Becky McLaughlin, “Perverse Pleasure and Fetishized Text: The Deathly Erotics of Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’ ”, in Style, volume 29, number 3, →JSTOR, page 219:
- 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.
- (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.
- 1990, Dominic A. Clark, “Verbal uncertainty expressions: A critical review of two decades of research”, in Current Psychology, volume 9, number 3, , page 229:
- 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.
- 2011, Robert Green, Henry Ledgard, “Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science”, in Communications of the ACM[1], volume 54, number 12, :
- 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(−−)
.
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editTranslations
editconsisting of or involving a single element or component
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mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument
Noun
editunary (countable and uncountable, plural unaries)
- (mathematics) The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.
- (information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
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