unsigned
adjective
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adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English signed English unsigned From un- + signed.
- Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).
“We use an unsigned variable to store the employee's salary, since it will never be less than zero.”
- Lacking a signature, unendorsed.
“The bank rejected the unsigned check.”
- Not signed to an organization such as a sports club or record label.
“The unsigned player also had the option of sitting out a year and negotiating as a free agent.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English signed English unsigned From un- + signed.
- A numeric value or variable that has no sign and can only be positive.
“For compilers which produce two-byte unsigneds, the maximum cumulative frequency is 16,383 if we wish to avoid the use of long arithmetic.”