unary
Meanings
Plural: unaries
Adjective Satellite
- 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"
Adj
- Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
- Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.
Noun
- The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.
- Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.
Scrabble Score: 8
unary is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordunary is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
unary is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
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