unary en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈjuːnəɹi/
Etymology
From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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.
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:
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(not-comparable) 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.
1990, Dominic A. Clark, “Verbal uncertainty expressions: A critical review of two decades of research”, in Current Psychology, volume 9, number 3, →DOI, page 229: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 (−−).
2011, Robert Green, Henry Ledgard, “Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 54, number 12, →DOI:
Deriveds
nonunary · unary operation · unary operator · unarily
Translations (18)
pl jednoargumentowy (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · fa یگانی (consisting of or involving a single element or component) · fr unaire (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · fi unaarinen (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · de unär (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · bg едини́чен (consisting of or involving a single element or component) · cs unární (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · ro unar (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · de einstellig (consisting of or involving a single element or component) · ms sesatu (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · pl unarny (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · pt unário (consisting of or involving a single element or component) · is einstæður (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · fi yksiosainen (consisting of or involving a single element or component) · pl jednoczłonowy (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · pl jednoelementowy (consisting of or involving a single element or component) · sv unär (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument) · ms sesatu (consisting of or involving a single element or component)