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unary

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnəɹi/

adj

Etymology: From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  1. The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.
  2. Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.