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unitary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English unit Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English unitary From unit + -ary.

Meanings

  1. Having the quality of oneness.
    • If yes–no questions are CPs containing a null yes–no question operator (a null counterpart of whether) in spec-CP, we can arrive at a unitary characterisation of questions as CPs with an interrogative specifier. 2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 221:
  2. (of a system of government or administration) That concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.
    • a unitary authority
    • a unitary state
  3. (of an algebra) That contains an identity element.
  4. (of a matrix or operator) Whose inverse is equal to its adjoint.
    • In essence we are looking for some way to average the individual unitary matrices Uₖ. But a linear combination of unitary matrices does not remain unitary. 2002, M. Klajman, J. A. Chambers, “A Novel Approximate Joint Diagonalization Algorithm”, in J. G. McWhirter, I. K. Proudler, editors, Mathematics in Signal Processing V, page 71:
    • We then repeat the same procedure to the (d − 1) × (d − 1) block unitary matrix using (d − 2) two-level unitary matrices. 2008, Mikio Nakahara, Tetsuo Ohmi, Quantum Computing: From Linear Algebra to Physical Realizations, page 84:
    • The eigenvectors of an orthogonal or unitary operator, corresponding to different eigenvalues, are orthogonal. 1997, P. K. Suetin, Alexandra I. Kostrikin, Yuri I. Manin, translated by M. E. Alferieff, Linear Algebra and Geometry, page 137:

Antonyms

confederal (antonym(s) of “that concentrates power in a single body”)

Deriveds

unitary state · unitary council · unitary authority · special unitary group · unitary matrix · unitary government · unitary psychosis · unitary group · unitary representation

Relateds

unitarity · unionized · singular · unitize · unitise · unitarian · unitarily · unitariness · united

Synonyms

unital (that contains an identity element)

Translations (44)

ga aonadach (mathematics: having an identity element) · fr unitaire (having the quality of oneness) · ja ユニタリー (having the quality of oneness) · bg единен (having the quality of oneness) · kk бiртұтас (mathematics: having an identity element) · kk унитарлық (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · he יחידאי (having the quality of oneness) · fi yhtenäinen (having the quality of oneness) · fr unitaire (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · ro unitar (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · cmn(mathematics: having an identity element) · ru едини́чный (having the quality of oneness) · bg унитарен (mathematics: having an identity element) · ko 유니터리 (mathematics: having an identity element) · ja ユニタリ (mathematics: having an identity element) · ga aonadach (having the quality of oneness) · cs jednotkový (having the quality of oneness) · bg унитарен (mathematics: that has an inverse equal to its adjoint) · pt unitário (mathematics: having an identity element) · bg неделим (having the quality of oneness) · it unitario (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · de unitär (mathematics: having an identity element) · bg едноличен (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · cmn 一元的 (having the quality of oneness) · ru унита́рный (mathematics: having an identity element) · cmn 單一的 /单一的 (having the quality of oneness) · es unitario (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · fi unitaarinen (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · he מאוחד (having the quality of oneness) · kk унитарлық (mathematics: having an identity element) · he אוניטרי (mathematics: having an identity element) · pt unitário (having the quality of oneness) · ga aonadach (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · es unitario (mathematics: having an identity element) · es unitario (having the quality of oneness) · he מואחד (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · fi unitaarinen (mathematics: having an identity element) · pt unitário (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · ca unitari (having the quality of oneness) · kk бiртұтас (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · cmn 幺正 (mathematics: having an identity element) · ca unitari (government: that concentrates power into a single body) · bg ортогонален (mathematics: that has an inverse equal to its adjoint) · ru еди́ный (government: that concentrates power into a single body)

unitary en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English unit Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English unitary From unit + -ary.

Meanings

  1. (UK) A unitary council.
    • Outside the metropolitan areas most councils (English and Welsh counties, London boroughs, Scottish and Welsh unitaries, and Northern Ireland districts) are now elected en bloc every four years. 2005, John Greenwood, Robert Pyper, David Wilson, New Public Administration in Britain:
  2. A unitary matrix or operator.
    • Can unitaries in a unital C*-algebra with real rank zero be approximated by unitaries with finite spectrum? 2001, Huaxin Lin, An Introduction to the Classification of Amenable C*-Algebras, page 170:
    • 1980, Michael Reed, Barry Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume 1: Functional Analysis, Revised and Expanded Edition page 243, Since ergodicity and mixing are expressible in terms of the induced Koopman unitaries they are not additional invariants.

Forms

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Deriveds

superunitary · paraunitary · unitarize · antiunitary · subunitary · unitarism · counitary · nonunitary · pseudounitary