unary
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnəɹi/
adj
Etymology: From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.
- Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
“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.”
- 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.”
“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.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.
- The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.
- Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.